8 - Number of days remaining until the start of the Capitals’ 2022-23 season. But it’s also...
...the number of players remaining on the Caps’ roster (at least for now) from the 2018 Stanley Cup Champion squad, with Nicklas Backstrom, John Carlson, Lars Eller, Evgeny Kuznetsov, T.J. Oshie, Dmitry Orlov, Alex Ovechkin and Tom Wilson all sporting rings from that magical run.
That’s just about in line with other recent champions; Tampa Bay, surprisingly (or not) only has nine players remaining from their Cup run of just over a year ago.