After dropping their last six games, the Washington Capitals have endured their longest losing streak since the 2006-07 season, the last time the squad failed to make the playoffs. Additionally, many of the team's best players are in the midst of deep slumps personally, and tempers have been reaching a boiling point frequently over the last couple of games.
What makes the losing streak even more troubling for Capitals management and fans is the manner in which they have been losing. Usually an offensive juggernaut, the team has been held off the score-sheet four times in their last 13 games, and has only scored more than two goals once during their six game skid.
Only one of the six teams they've lost to during the losing streak was a playoff team in 2010, and they saved their worst performance since 2006 for Sunday night against the New York Rangers. After going down by a goal near the end of the first period of play, the team proceeded to allow six over the next two periods to fall 7-0 at Madison Square Garden.
During the second period, captain Alexander Ovechkin dropped the gloves with the Rangers' Brandon Dubi ...
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