If the Washington Capitals are going to knock themselves out of their current slump, they’ll need to take a page out of Eminem’s playbook at the end of the Academy Award-winning movie 8 Mile, and lay everything their naysayers have against them on the table before they even get a chance.
“Go ahead,” Eminem says as he concludes and tosses the microphone to his stunned opponent. “Tell these people something they don’t already know about me.”
So let’s do it.
The Washington Capitals have lost five games in a row.