Word of the Capitals' first significant personnel move of the offseason arrived yesterday: assistant coach Jay Leach, with the club for five seasons, won't be returning in 2009-10. Leach coached the team's defensemen. It's pointless to speculate on the rationale for the change -- all that General Manager George McPhee would offer yesterday was that the decision was "mutual." But Leach's departure arrives not two weeks removed from the conclusion of a tumultuous spring for the team's blueliners. Mike Green, a Norris Trophy finalist, while playing injured, was indisputably and inexplicably horrendous for much of the postseason. Jeff Schultz seemed to regress in the second half of the season. Milan Jurcina, conversely, seemed to play his best hockey to date in D.C. against the Rangers and Penguins, and John Erskine's fledgling NHL career positively catapulted under Leach's mentoring. So the Leach track record with the organization's bluelin...
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Jay Leach,
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Karl Alzner,
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