3 – Number of consecutive Caps wins in which Daniel Sprong scored the game-winning goal, including last night’s victory over the Rangers.
In franchise history, no player has ever scored the game-winner in three-straight regular-season games (though Sprong would have, had the Caps had been able to hold on after taking a 4-3 lead last Thursday). But the feat that Sprong just pulled off (GWGs in three-straight Caps regular-season wins in the same season) has only been accomplished ten times previously, most recently 13 years ago:
There are some all-time great Caps on that list (and also Jaromir Jagr and Kip Miller). But the greatest game-winning goal streak in club history actually occurred in the playoffs – a “natural hat trick” of GWGs, three games, three game winners. And it belongs to not Alex Ovechkin or Peter Bondra or even John Druce, but…