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East Metropolitan · 2026–27 season

The story so far

Capitals fans spent the opening weeks crediting the offseason pickups, led by Alex Tuch, while grumbling about Chychrun, the refs and Ovechkin's minutes. Misery climbed to 68 after the Kings loss, then eased to 48 as an 8-5-0 team had fans cautiously buzzing again.

From Reddit fan threads · through Oct 26–Nov 1 · 8-5-0

Season misery
61Uneasy
Worst week
95Nov 2–8
Best week
42Sep 28–Oct 4
Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 42 (Content) · 1-1Oct 5–11: misery 53 (Meh) · 2-1Oct 12–18: misery 59 (Uneasy) · 2-1Oct 19–25: misery 68 (Miserable) · 1-1Oct 26–Nov 1: misery 48 (Meh) · 2-1Nov 2–8: misery 95 (Despair) · 0-19/2810/510/1210/1910/2611/2
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long

  • From 82-0 jokes after Carolina to praise for Tuch, Leonard, Jenner and Kyrou, fans kept crediting the new faces for the scoring and mocked anyone calling the signings overpays.

    “I saw… offense… from the caps. My normal complaints about our team don’t even work anymore. Just gotta get use to how the refs call the game and clean up penalties.”

    ▲ 40Sep 28–Oct 4

    Sep 28–Oct 4 ›Oct 5–11 ›Oct 12–18 ›
Emerging
Came and went

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. 95Nov 2–8● so far0-1›
  2. 48Oct 26–Nov 12-1›
  3. 68Oct 19–251-1›
  4. 59Oct 12–182-1›
  5. 53Oct 5–112-1›
  6. 42Sep 28–Oct 41-1›