Hard to imagine the Potomac Yard Capitals without Ovechkin

I actually have no idea ... is he injured? Just finally ageing and slowing down? Or unhappy? Or unlucky this year?

Could be a combination of all these tbh

I wouldn’t be opposed to this but it does hurt the defensive depth can’t see them selling him so low though

Lost Backstrom and Knutzy regressed faster than Ovie and his new center, Strome, scores more than he sets up.

Ovie badly needs a "wizard" to play with.

And yes, new coach, older age, injured, weaker shot and an unwillingness to adapt his game style, I said it before, Ovie needs to become a garbage goal scorer now, like Dino or Andreychuck, he can't sit still and blast pucks like Hull or Bossy and he isn't fast enough to skate into the zone and shoot like Gartner or Leflower.

He's 38 and his team sucks

The coach sucks.

Let's be truthful.

If the Caps are going to be a playoff bubble team, then why not try shootout offensive instead of low scoring games>?

The team will miss the playoffs either way, so why not at least be entertaining.