We’ll get to Scott Walker, aka Maurice Richard, in a minute.
First up, however, is the status of John Carlson. In Thursday night’s postgame Bruce Boudreau said that there would be neither callups nor demotions going forward, meaning, it sure looks like Carly’s here to stay. That means, you would have to think, that the Caps figure to give him meaningful minutes come the postseason. Why scratch him or skate him sub- 10 minutes in a third pairing when he could earn 25 minutes a night leading the Hershey Bears to another Calder Cup?
If you’ve watched the Caps the last two nights you’ve seen a handful of instances in which Carly’s made deft defensive plays in his own end and in the blink of an eye later authored strikes — hard, fast, and flat — up the middle of the ice onto the tape of forward teammates. Always on the tape. Always hard and fast and flat. At age 20, he’s of course not a polished professional blueliner. He just looks...
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