29 – Number of days remaining until the start of the Washington Capitals’ 50th season. But it’s also…
…the number of seasons in which the Capitals have at least 25 wins when scoring the game’s first goal. In the first few seasons of their existence, the team only scored the first goal of the game period more than 25 times once (in 1976-77, when it happened a whopping 27 times out of 80) – through the first four seasons, they gave up the first goal in 213 of their 320 games played.
The most times they ever led first was back in 2016-17, when the team grabbed the first goal in an impressive 58 of their 82 games.