3 – The number of skaters that play for the Capitals who are inside the top-12 heaviest players in the NHL, now that they’ve traded for the 234-pound Anthony Mantha. He joins 250-pound Zdeno Chara and 238-pound Alex Ovechkin among the Caps’ representatives of the beefy elite.
The refrain “heavy hockey” is about to have a renaissance in the Nation’s Capital.