The State of Things Share this story Photo by Jim McIsaac/NHLI via Getty Images A short nine months ago we took an EKG of the Caps’ organization, and it felt closer to flatline than to pulsing. Todd Reirden was three games away from his eventual ousting, the on-ice product was visibly incoherent even to the untrained eye, the roster was old, the contracts expensive, and even the power-play, vaunted for so many years, was languishing. Fast forward to May 2020, the tail end of the 2021 NHL regular season, and it looks like maybe the Caps were just working through a spot of arrythmia.