A few minutes after Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar addressed the media Wednesday night, a couple of Washington Capitals were slowly shuffling toward the team bus. They were unknowingly helping to prove a point Bednar had just made.
The Capitals were filing out of Ball Arena not long after Nathan MacKinnon authored a virtuoso performance against them. They were a desperate team, but MacKinnon eviscerated them with his second four-goal, five-point game in 34 days.
Washington’s players were getting on a bus, which would take them to Denver International Airport and then onto a plane headed for Dallas.