Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Caps latest Presidents' Trophy champs to go poof in playoffs (Yahoo Sports)
Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals became the latest in a long line of NHL teams to discover regular-season dominance doesn't translate into playoff prominence. The Caps went from Presidents' Trophy winners in April to poof in May after being eliminated in Game 6 of their second-round playoff series to Pittsburgh. Add in the Vancouver Canucks, who lost the 2011 Cup Final series in seven games to Boston, there have been just as many Presidents' Trophy-winners to reach the final round as have been eliminated in the first round: five each.
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