Caps Need Some More Toughness

Washington Capitals Hockey

With Donald Brashear out, the Caps seem to lack "toughness", and teams are taking liberties with them. The high sticking of Green, and the slamming into the boards of Ovechkin by Brind'Amour are two examples. Outside of Brashear, the two main "tough guys" on the Capitals are Bradley and Erskine. While Bradley is willing, he's not the kind of figure that throws fear into the opposing teams as he winds up taking a beating more times than not in his fights. Erskine has shown the ability to handle himself in a fight but is not dropping the gloves as much as he used to. While the Caps are a team blessed with size, being the biggest team in their conference, in my opinion they need another person similar to Brashear that is willing to drop the gloves more as to keep the opposing teams from manhandling and even abusing some of the Caps talented young stars.