"I have scrupulously scrivened your pre-season predictions and present them now to you. If you recall, last year everyone was too negative. I think you did a lot better this season, which is also to say the Caps are a little bit worse. Still... The Capitals are going to make the playoffs. Ninety-nine percent of you think so, at least."
"The Capitals will be a hundred-point team. 103 points, to be precise. 103.4 to be even preciser. I think of one-hundred points as the same, approximately, as being a top-ten team. The Caps aren't that right now. As of Christmas, they're on a 95-point pace, but we're also in the midst of a slump (five-on-five) and eschatological crisis (power play). With some tweaks, I think it's totally possible the Caps get into triple digits."
"The Capitals will make it to the conference final. Okay, now you're getting bold. On average, you predicted the Caps will win 9.1 playoff games. (I removed all the people who said they'd win 69 or 420 games.) That would get the Caps into the third round of the playoffs for just the third time in franchise history (1998 - boo hiss, and 2018 - hell yeah, woop woop). It would also keep us at RMNB posting game coverage until late May. I'd love that."
Pre-season predictions project the Washington Capitals to make the playoffs, with near-universal confidence among readers. Moneypuck currently gives the team a 76.4 percent chance of qualifying, though that number has dipped after recent lulls. The Capitals are predicted to finish with about 103 points, roughly equivalent to a top-ten team, despite sitting on a 95-point pace at Christmas amid five-on-five struggles and power-play troubles. Voters expect a deep postseason run, averaging 9.1 playoff wins and a berth in the conference final. Alex Ovechkin is forecast to score about 37 goals despite a recent cold stretch.
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