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The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C.. They play in the National Hockey League. Along with the Kansas City Scouts, the Capitals joined the NHL as an expansion team for the 1974-75 season. With a combined 30 teams between the NHL and the rival World Hockey Association, the talent pool available to stock the new teams was extremely thin. In their first season, the Capitals would set an NHL record for futility, losing 67 of 80 games, and only winning one on the road. The Scouts fared only marginally better, and the expansion was widely seen as having been a mistake.
The Capitals finished the 2005-2006 NHL in
the cellar of the Southeastern Division again, yet with a slight
improvement over the 2003-2004 season with a 29-41-12 record and 70
standings points, good for 27th out of the 30 NHL teams. Yet, the team
played close in every game, playing in 42 one-goal games, although
losing 2/3rds of those games. Ovechkin's rookie season exceeded the
hype, as his 52 goals and 106 points both ranked third all-time among
NHL rookies and he led all 2005-2006 NHL rookies in goals, points,
power-play goals and shots. He finished third overall in the NHL in
scoring and tied for third in goals and his 425 shots not only led the
league and set an NHL rookie record, but also was the fourth-highest
total in NHL history. Ovechkin’s point total was the second best in
Washington Capitals history and his goal total was tied for third in
franchise history. Many longtime Capitals had career years with Dainius
Zubrus netting 57 points, Halpern having a career-best 33 assists, Matt
Pettinger put in a career-best 20 goal-38 point effort and seven others
on the relatively young team topped 20 points for the first time. Two
notable landmarks were also hit by Capitals, as the team's longest
tenured Capital, Olaf Kolzig won his 250th game in goal and Andrew
Cassels became the 204th player to play 1,000 games, although he did not
finish out his season with the team.
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