The Caps, fresh off a dramatic 4-3 shootout victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins last night, travel to Raleigh to face the Carolina Hurricanes. A win tonight would break the franchise record for points (108, set last season and equaled last night), tie the record for wins (50, also set last season) and bring the Caps one step closer to adding to their ever-growing list of accolades.
If the New Jersey Devils also lose tonight, the Caps would clinch the top seed in the Eastern Conference for the first time in club history. If that happened, the red, white and blue would secure the top seed in the East before any other team in the conference clinched a playoff spot. Talk about dominance.
Tom Boswell, who penned an artful column in today's Washington Post, asked Coach Bruce Boudreau after last night's game to put all of the season's accomplishments in perspective. Boudreau automatically responded that none of the regular-season achievements matter if a team doesn't succeed in the playoffs and essentially added a "just ask the San Jose Sharks" quip. (He didn't use those exact words.)
So while all of these franchise records are fun, and certainly securing home-ice advantage is uber-important, the paramount first comes in two months, when the team has a chance to, as Ed Frankovic eloquently wrote, "have a date in June with an engraver."
March 25, 2010
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