The month turns over to August, but "turnover" isn't something that happens often in the first week of August in Caps history.
As we become firmly ensconced in the dog days of summer, here's a look at some things that have happened this week in franchise history.
Nobody likes August. There aren't any national holidays, it lasts too long, and as one writer put it, it is "the Mississippi of the calendar. It's beastly hot and muggy. It has a dismal history. Nothing good ever happens in it. And the United States would be better off without it.