It is no longer news that George McPhee, general manager of the Washington Capitals, did incredible work this summer during the first half of the NHL's free agency period.
In fact, I'm surprised that we haven't seen more articles here on Bleacher Report or in other hockey blogs with titles such as "George McPhee Commits Grand Larceny" or "Capitals' McPhee is Most Brilliant General Manager in All of Hockey."
Coincidentally, I was in the process of writing a long article giving 15 reasons why the Caps were not one of the league's elite teams, why they would never have won a Cup the way they were.
There were a great deal of things that separated Washington's Red Army from marching to victory in Lord Stanley's playoffs.
Then McPhee completely turned the character if his team around.
The man took a look at his team, saw its flaws and fixed pretty much every single problem anyone could imagine that the constant playoff heart-breakees could possibly have.
Sure, Roman Hamrlik and Joel Ward are coming to the Nation's Capital at a little bit of a high cost. But look at how McPhee and the Capitals fared with their two key ...
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