A 16-game winning streak and some bulletin-board material.
The Columbus Blue Jackets and their second-best streak of all time hit D.C. on Thursday night, and the Washington Capitals are looking forward to it, thank you very much.
After beating the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime Tuesday, the team was watching the end of the Blue Jackets' game against the Edmonton Oilers - a 3-1 Columbus win.
"If anyone says they weren't (paying attention), they're lying, because we had it on in the changing room," Brooks Orpik said, according to The Washington Post's Isabelle Khurshudyan.
On Thursday morning, Andre Burakovsky did Orpik even better:
Andre Burakovsky on Columbus win streak: "It's going to be a really fun moment for us to end it."
— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) January 5, 2017
The Capitals are 0-1-1 against the Blue Jackets this season, losing 2-1 in overtime on Nov. 15 and 3-2 on Nov. 20, before Columbus went on its magical run.
Washington has its work cut out for it:
From @ESPNStatsInfo on the Blue Jackets' winning streak. pic.twitter.com/1gdGuCLgHR
— Adam Vingan (@AdamVingan) January 5, 2017
After Thursday, the teams will meet again on March 23 and April 2.
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