Spaced out over the rest of June, we will feature end-of-season profiles for every player on the Washington Capitals, a year-in-review of sorts looking at their statistics, story lines and such. The full list of published pieces can be found at the end.
Among the English expressions forward Evgeny Kuznetsov grew fond of saying this season – “It’s not my first rodeo” unquestionably the most memorable – the Russian rookie invoked one in particular as an all-encompassing motto, to explain everything from growing pains to language barriers to gut-wrenching defeats to the unfamiliarity of his first expiring contract in the National Hockey League.