Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, the Washington Capitals solidified themselves as a team to watch this spring.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, theThe Capitals are the only team in the league not to have a player chosen for the 4 Nations Face-Off international tournament between the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Finland, and one of just two without representation after San Jose tradedto Dallas last week.
Perhaps management and coaches for USA Hockey and Hockey Canada will regret not picking them, and all three are candidates to play at the Milan Olympics a year from now, but the current circumstances have their minds set on the remainder of this season. Some winning teams have a lot of players going to Montreal and then Boston for 4 Nations, most notably the Panthers. They've collectively played a lot of hockey after back-to-back trips to the final, but coach Paul Maurice wants his players in the tournament to “play as hard as they can and take the entire experience in,” seeing in the past how making a national team is an injection of pride to those not accustomed to it.
With that goal a long ways off, the immediate priority is navigating a stretch without hockey, something Carlson knows there's no perfect formula for.
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