Washington — Different buildings can spur different memories for hockey players as they make the rounds during an NHL season.
Mike Green and Jimmy Howard certainly have different memories of the Verizon Center, home of the Capitals.
Green returned Tuesday, the prodigal son of a Capitals franchise he helped improve beginning in 2006 with some generally outstanding offensive play as a defenseman the first 10 seasons of his career.
Howard returned to the scene of a rudely abrupt demise when he ripped his groin last season and was carted off the ice on a stretcher at the start of a game, just hours after he was named an All-Star.