1. Leaders Leading
Here’s a postseason cliché for you: in the playoffs, your best players have to be your best players.
Here’s a Game 5 truth: on Saturday night, the Caps’ best players were their best players:
Someday, at least two and maybe all four of those names will hang in the rafters at Capital One Arena - they’ve been the most important players of the most important era of Washington Capitals hockey, with each taking down franchise (and League) records seemingly every game - and in Game 5, they imposed their respective wills on the Carolina Hurricanes.