I don’t expect the Capitals to sustain 57.3-percent possession for the rest of the season, but I do think they’re an excellent five-on-five team. They have much more utility among middle-six forwards than I expected. There’s a world in which Alex Ovechkin starts scoring, Aliaksei Protas’ playmaking improves, and Hendrix Lapierre gets ice time. Those Caps would be fearsome – and it’d still all be for naught because god-awful special teams cost them a playoff spot.