Ah, a tradition unlike any other: teeth-gnashing playoff hockey anxiety in Washington.
Let’s get into it!
Here’s Thursday night’s Plus/Minus:
Plus: Two of the players the Capitals most needed to show up and show out tonight, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Philipp Grubauer, did just that. Kuzy scored two doozies, and Grubi stopped just about every shot you could reasonably expect a human being made of flesh and not elastic to make.
Minus: Losing freaking Game 1 at home. Right? Yeah, gotta be.
And now, this.