Players come and players go. It’s a rule in professional team sports, and hockey is no exception. And when players swap out the home team jersey for some new threads, we might follow them for a short time... but eventually (for most of us, anyway) the desire to keep track of them fades away and we lose touch.
That is, until they are opponents to be rooted against.
With the Caps set to face their old pal Brett Connolly for the first time tomorrow night when they visit the Florida Panthers, it’s a good time to take a look at how he and the rest of the alumni from the Cup-winning team of 2018 have fared since departing the District.