from Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post,

“I could have told you probably 20 years ago that this was exactly where I’d like to be,” Ohashi, 28, said recently, sitting in the Caps’ Ballston dressing room, wearing his team-issued coaching attire. “I never in a million years would have guessed I’d be here.”

Ohashi’s journey — from obsessing over sports as a kid in Bethesda to studying psychology and mathematics at Bates to landing an internship and then a full-time job on Barry Trotz’s coaching staff for his favorite hockey team — is indeed the stuff of teenage dreams. Here was a kid who grew up going to Caps games at U.S. Air Arena, and who used to watch practices from the bleachers in Northern Virginia, until a series of unlikely events allowed him to study those same practices from the other side of the glass.

“When you’re in college, your adviser doesn’t tell you ‘Hey, this is something you should consider,’ “ Ohashi joked.

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