If there's a team that knows all too well the meaningless nature of labels such as "best" and "odds-on favorite" and "Stanley Cup darling," it's the Washington Capitals.
These labels have served at various times over the past decade to become more yoke or albatross than a signpost on the way to greatness for this club.
This season, those same labels have been held at the ready once again and they are now being applied to the Capitals in the wake of Monday's bold move that saw them acquire offensive defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk and goaltender Pheonix Copley from the St.