Caps fan have known for a couple of years what the rest of the league is finding out, Mike Green is good. The Caps defensemen had a breakout season last year with 18 goals and 56 points and this year he has already surpassed his goal totals and is rapidly approaching his point totals of last year. Green is currently going through a streak the NHL hasn't seen since 1983-84 when Boston's Mike O'Connel scored in seven straight games. Green tied that mark in last night's disappointing shoot-out loss and will get his chance at history Saturday when the Caps are in Tampa. Mike leads all NHL defenseman in goals and points and if he still leads at the end of the season, will have done what only Sergei Gonchar came close to doing seven years ago, leading NHL defenseman in scoring at the end of the season while a Washington Capital.
Going Green really does seem to help the environment, at least the environment at the Verizon Center as Green and Ovechkin have helped to sell out the Verizon Center 16 times this year, but all of that environment warming has caused the ice surface to be a bit choppy at the Phone Booth, with, at times, temperatures in the building measuring 62 degrees and 42 percent humidity, two degrees higher than the NHL recommended temperatures of 60 degrees and 40 percent humidity. This has some Caps to go as far as saying that's why the team has been plagued with so many injuries this year, but enough of that, this is a pleasant post. The city hasn't been this excited about hockey in a very long time and I have a feeling the best is yet to come. The Caps finally have enough depth to make a legitimate run in the playoffs and run, or, er, skate they will.
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