I’m still waiting to find out everyone has to go back to Vegas to replay the final 30 seconds.

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Which is funny, because he’s proven the answer to the biggest roster hole in Washington since Fedorov left for Russia.

Prior to last night I would have agreed with you, but Kuznetsov shit-kicking the life out of Vegas put him in the pole position.

It’s not exactly ironic—because it makes sense—but it’d have been a surprise to Caps fans of the past that the Ovechkin/Backstrom–era Capitals finally found ultimate success only after splitting up Ovie and Backstrom.

PDO is a loose proxy for luck, but Barry is wrong to suggest that any deviation from 100 is “lucky.” Teams with above-average shooting or goaltending talent will naturally be at 101 or 102, while below-average teams will obviously be concordantly lower.

Since all those percentages will add up to exactly 100 leaguewide (one team’s goal is another team’s goal against), a team with a PDO over 100 is lucky/bound to eventually regress to 100