4 – Number of times in their last five games that the Capitals have scored just one goal, the most times they’ve been held to a single goal or less over a five-game span since October 14-25, 2003, when they similarly scored once four times for Bruce Cassidy (Robert Lang, Dainius Zubrus, Peter Bondra and Jaromir Jagr provided those lone goals).
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In case you’re wondering, the team record for one-goal-or-less outputs over the course of a season is 30 in 1998-99 (how’s that for a disappointing follow-up to the team’s only Finals appearance?), one more than they had in their abysmal inaugural campaign and three more than in the firesale season of 2003-04. The 2013-14 team has now done it 13 times, so that record seems pretty safe, recent cold spell notwithstanding.