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Japers’ Rink Mailbag: Reality Check, Tactics and a Dancing Zebra

It’s been a minute since we opened up the ol’ Bag, so we put out the call on Bluesky for any questions y’all might have. Without further ado…

Great, start, right? But it’s still a small sample and so it’s fair to be asking whether the Caps are actually good. Like, good good.

They’ve already played and beaten four of NHL.com’s top-8 non-Caps teams, have played the fourth-fewest minutes per game while trailing, and only one of their five losses came by more than a goal, excluding empty netters.