The Stanley Cup playoffs comprise four rounds with winners determined by best-of-seven game series. Teams with the higher regular-season point total have home-ice advantage. Each series is contested ...

The Capitals and Alex Ovechkin are riding high in the regular season, but the Stanley Cup Playoffs will present new ...

The Capitals have lingered at the top of the Metropolitan Division and the Eastern Conference for much of the season, igniting hopes that Ovechkin can power Washington to a deep playoff run.