At the end of the 2020-21 season, following a third straight loss in the first round of the NHL playoffs, Capitals' center Evgeny Kuznetsov was cast aside by many fans and labeled by some as the team pariah. Two bouts with COVID-19, a healthy scratch after he and Ilya Samsonov were late to a team event, and rather lackluster stats (for him) for the season seemed to signal the end for Kuznetsov in Washington.  Read more of this post