Because league rules require coaches to be available to the media each day during the Stanley Cup playoffs, Coach Barry Trotz spoke for roughly 15 minutes inside an otherwise empty practice facility Monday afternoon, while the Washington Capitals rested following their Game 6 loss to the New York Rangers. “A good day to cleanse the minds,” he called it, but also to scheme for Wednesday night’s winner-take-all game against the New York Rangers and, as it turned out, to bring up baseball, fishing and the shadows of history.
For the third time in four seasons, the Capitals and Rangers will square off in a Game 7.