1. Mr. Anderson
Craig Anderson will turn 40 on Friday and played fewer minutes for the Caps this year than Anthony Mantha. He wasn’t even on the Caps depth chart at New Year’s (a list that probably read Ilya Samsonov, Henrik Lundqvist, Vitek Vanecek, Pheonix Copley, Zach Fucale), and he hadn’t seen NHL playoff action since before the Caps were even Stanley Cup champions.
But Anderson was ready when called upon - and he delivered - after Vanecek had to leave the game after trying (and failing) to stop Jake DeBrusk’s game-tying goal in the first period of Game 1.