9 – Number of days remaining until the Caps open the 2014-15 season. But it’s also…
…the number of times Nicklas Backstrom has recorded four or more assists in a game, nearly twice as many as anyone else since he entered the League at the start of the 2007-08 season. Backstrom’s four-helper outings (he’s still looking for his first five-assist game) are more than every other Cap combined since the start of the 1996-97 season, with the two most-recent coming within an five-game span last December (against Tampa and Carolina).