Capitals Do Not Address Defense in the Offseason

From Washington Capitals Examiner It might seem an odd analogy to make, but this Capitals offseason to me kind of played out like that children’s tale “The Emperor's New Clothes.” …Huh? Well, without forcing you to recall that desultory period as a child where you were forced to sit still and read or be read to quietly, I’ll try to give you a brief synopsis of why I think the “New Clothing” parable fits. In “The Emperor's New Clothes,” you have a guy whose one and only focus in life is acquiring a nicer pair of clothing. This singular goal, unsurprisingly, becomes an obsession that takes on a life of its own as the Emperor's outwardly focused aspiration for trying to acquire nicer things makes him so absolutely blind to what’s going on in the here-and-now. This manifests itself so strongly that in the end, he actually gets connived into believing that he has purchased a beautiful new set of clothes w...