(Caps Outsider)
At long last, Nicklas Backstrom and Tom Wilson returned to the lineup as the Caps beat the Blue Jackets, 1-0. And while the game wasn’t pretty – the Blue Jackets outshot the Caps, 38-19 – Backstrom and Wilson’s return brought a sense of normalcy back to the team. During pregame warmups, Wilson and T.J. Oshie participated in their usual stick slapping routine, a routine Oshie has had to do without Wilson. At the tail-end of warmups, Backstrom practiced his cross-ice feeds to Alex Ovechkin, mimicking a power play, as the duo has done for 15 years.