from Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog,

The Capitals took a new slogan into this spring. It sounds like a cliche — okay, it is a cliche — but that didn’t matter.

“I hear it all the time,” Joel Ward said after Washington’s series-clinching 2-1 win over the Islanders on Monday night.

“Going through the battle instead of going around it,” Nicklas Backstrom said, repeating the slogan.

Backstrom said the whole team uses it. But the phrase’s most colorful deployment came a few moments earlier, when Coach Barry Trotz addressed his team with the doors closed.

“We talked about going through it instead of around it,” Trotz told his players, in footage posted by Monumental Network. “We went [expletive] through it today, okay? You got a little test there today when they got it 1-1. There was no doubt. There was no [expletive] doubt.”

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