ANALYSIS/OPINION:
No one seemed to wear the Washington Capitals’ playoff failures more in the locker room in years past than Nicklas Backstrom.
He would sit in front of his locker in despair, searching for answers when there didn’t seem to be any.
If this was 2017, 2016 … pick a year, and the Capitals had failed to score on a five-minute power play in a playoff game like they did Saturday in the second period against the Carolina Hurricanes, Backstrom would have been sitting in front of his locker crushed by the failure of what likely would have been a loss.