In baseball the saying is, “It’ll look like a liner in the box score.”

That’s how I’m seeing my local NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals) and its sneaky entrance into this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Caps won their last three games of the season, and I’m happy to say it wasn’t their last three games.

Just as important, these were regulation wins. Yeah, the old RW column. Who’da thunk this meaningless stat would actually play into whether or not the Caps made the playoffs? They forgot that one in Moneyball… on-base percentage, OPS+, and regulation wins.

Remember to put that one in Moneyball 2.