Breakdown day: This episode includes Brian Maclellan, Dylan Strome and Tom Wilson as they talk about this past season and how they will be better next season.

In this edition of Locked on Capitals Dan talks about the breakdown day for the Capitals. In this epiosde he talks Brain Maclellan, Dylan Strome and Tom Wilson. MacLellan said he had been open to discussing a future for Laviolette in D.C. but it became apparent during a Friday morning meeting that a breakup was best for both parties.We had a conversation and the conversation went in a certain direction and we both decided we’d make changes,” MacLellan said. MacLellan said he plans to cast a wide net as he searches for Laviolette’s replacement and acknowledged — without naming names, obviously — that he may wait to talk to assistants who are on teams currently in the playoffs. As far as what he’s looking for in his next bench boss, MacLellan said he wants a coach that can manage stars and develop young players — an admittedly rare skill set. “Our group is changing,” he said. “We’re trying to get younger; we brought in some younger players. It’s going to be different in that you want a coach that can work with young guys, and we’re going to have a veteran group at the top that kind of needs a veteran coach. It’s going to be a challenge to find the right guy for that. … I don’t know that we can find it, but we’ll do the best we can.” Later Dan talks about Dylan Strome “I kind of feel like that Pittsburgh game was the game that sunk the ship,” the center said of the last-minute loss at PPG Paints Arena on March 25. “We had some chances after that. But if we win that game…”Strome lamented a few other losses throughout the season that ended up costing the Caps at the end. “You look at some of the games at home,” he said, “we lost to teams below us in the standings like Arizona, Anaheim, Columbus — all at home. That’s six points you’d love to have back.” In the final segment Dan talks about Tom Wilson *Wilson Towards the end of the year, we just — for whatever reason — we just weren’t where we wanted to be as a group.

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