Daily Washington Capitals news and notes: The Caps are gearing up for the second season.
- The Caps have secured the playoffs, a Metro championship and the number-one seed in the East in near-historic fashion. So why does everyone look so glum? [WaPo]
- Coach Trotz knows. "You can’t manufacture urgency. You can try to manufacture some focus points, but you can’t manufacture urgency. You sort of have to get your back against the wall to be urgent and we haven’t had that for a long time, for two months now." [CSNMA]
- But pay all the gloom-and-doom some no never mind - there's a second season to prepare for!