When you're the Stanley Cup champs, you want to check boxes as early as possible.

It took a while, but the caps are now checking boxes, Alan.

They've checked off, clinching the playoffs, and after beating Montreal in Game 81,

they have checked off their fourth straight division title.

Absolutely amazing.

The transformation of this franchise in the last five years, what they've become.

It's been all about the progression towards being a defense first team.

And tonight, they locked it down to get themselves another Metropolitan Division

Championship or whatever you want to call it.

But way to go.

Great D is what it led.

I think Metropolitan Division Championship is what we'll call it.

That's what it is.

Ryan Billy, the crazy thing is to think of all the great teams in the history of hockey,

and there have been some dynasties, the Canadians in the 70s,

and the Islanders, and then the Oilers and the 80s,

and all these great franchises historically.

Only one team had ever won four straight division titles on two separate occasions.

And it was the Bruins in the 20s and then again in the 70s.

And now the caps have done it twice, really in the last decade, a little over a decade.

It's remarkable the level of excellence

that this franchise has sustained.

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