Perhaps you heard that a new bench boss for the has arrived in the Nation’s Capital. Peter Laviolette’s next tour of duty in Washington comes on the heels of the departure of Todd Reirden, whose tenure will be remembered primarily as an underachieving two-year epilogue to the Capitals’ 2018 Stanley Cup run.
Last year, we analyzed the on-ice tatters that Todd Reirden put the Capitals in and, predictably, the team sought the hard-edged but abstract characteristics in their next coach that were evidently absent in Reirden - ideas like accountability, and discipline, and structure.