What prior to Tuesday had been a bit of a playground for visitors in the Capitals’ end — particularly for opposing power forwards — became a bit more jungle-like with George McPhee’s acquisition of Scott Hannan from the Colorado Avalanche yesterday.
Hannan, 31, tips in at 6 ’1, 225. Over the course of his 11 NHL seasons he’s been a 22-minute-a-night pillar of own-end accountability. His reputation is as a shutdown specialist who blocks a lot of shots — commodities in short supply on the D.C. blueline in recent seasons. Some reaction among the D.C. bloggerdom yesterday seemed to get bogged down in diminishing Hannan’s bona fides as a tier I physical force.That exercise I think misses the point; there is jam to Hannan’s game, and as such he’ll well compliment Jason Chimera and Matt Hendricks as recent additions made by McPhee that in total, weighed with departures named Morrisonn, Belanger, Morrison, and now Fleischmann, inv...
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