After two years of unmatched regular season success, Washington was at a low. Trotz called the Capitals a “no-show.”“The character was a little bit of a question,” right wing T.J. Oshie said two nights later. “We haven’t changed a ton about how we play, it’s just I think different things are more important to us this year than they have been in the past,” Niskanen said. Just because of who we lost and how many young guys we have, the chemistry is different and we’re a different team. It was something Trotz addressed in the locker room after that loss in Colorado, when the Capitals were still somehow just four points off the Metropolitan Division lead.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2017 20:20 UTC