Following the Capitals Game 7 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, Brooks Orpik skated away with the game puck. Leaving the ice, he knew very well that it could have been his final game.
“I think you when the season ends, whether you have a contract or not, you always think about it a little bit,” Orpik said. “But obviously when you don’t have a potentially not even playing next year, you think about it even more.”
The question of his future looms, to become a UFA at 38 years old on July 1.