As far as the Trotz talk goes, I'm not sure he's the guy for this team. I was looking at a Caps blog yesterday at HockeyBuzz (yeah I know). Here's a snippet.
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Barrie Trotz is in competition with Randy Carlyle for the worst coach in the NHL, if you want my opinion.
He is brutal.
Trotz makes terrible decision after terrible decision and it makes following the Capitals extremely frustrating. Whether it's ignorance to the actual quality of play of Brooks Orpik, his ignorance regarding advanced stats and analytics, or his weird decisions to scratch good player or shove them far down in the lineup at the expense of terrible players like Chandler Stephenson and Devonte Smith-Pelly/ Half of what he does is inexplicable.
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