Dylan Strome and Pierre-Luc Dubois have a lot in common.
Both are centers and former third overall picks (Strome in 2015, Dubois the following year) who have bounced around the league a surprising amount for dudes who are not yet 28 and carry that draft pedigree. Each seems to have found a real home in Washington after being acquired for literally nothing (Strome) or in exchange for what seemed to be an albatross of a contract (although Dubois’s current deal, to be fair, could be described in precisely the same way). Both put up decent numbers at previous stops, but neither topped 63 points in a season; Strome has now done that in each of his two full campaigns with the Caps, and both players are on pace to do this season, with Strome currently sitting atop the team’s leaderboard with 47 points and Dubois two spots back at 40.