It's a foregone conclusion in the National Hockey League that productivity declines with age. Dave Lozo used the lens of Alex Ovechkin to call our attention to this inevitability, using the "enjoy it while it lasts" pathos.
But within the same organization, there's another player, older than Ovechkin, whose previous team success—made possible in no small part thanks to his personal dramatics—has given him a pedigree unlike any other in the room. Speckles of silver in his hair though no longer donning a silver sweater, Justin Williams is four years Ovechkin's senior, three Stanley Cups highlighting a pedigree that features more Game-7 victories than the Ovechkin-era Capitals feature Game-7 losses.