Who could have possibly seen this coming?
When you watch this team a lot, you learn to recognize patterns, enough that you can sometimes predict how each game will go. After two games without a goal and an especially lazy effort on Saturday afternoon, it would have been easy to predict a listless performance from the Sens on this second afternoon game in two days. Especially since, before this game, the Capitals were on the list of teams the Sens had not beaten since 2017 (it’s a long list).
But, you see, Capitals fans have been getting nervous about the state of their team recently.