Laich: No more 'loosey goosey' Capitals

Capitals forward Brooks Laich provides CSNWashington.com an update on his health, noting he feels really good and should be ‘ready to rock and roll’ in the fall.

“I played through things you’ve never even heard of or were aware of and that’s still there,” Laich said of his warrior mentality. “The [injury] I ran into was a  nuclear bomb. Two years of my life was a constant pain every day. To be out of it and to be able to move … I can go anywhere. For two years I felt like I was in a box.”

Laich had a number of comments on the new shift for the Capitals with head coach Barry Trotz and GM Brian MacLellan.

“Consistency. Habits. Team. Structure. Discipline, Defense. Goaltending. Those are recipes for success,” Laich said, “and if you continually have those and speak it and act it, you set yourself up for a lot of success.

“We’ve been kind of up and down in the past. We weren’t the same team that practiced when we lost as when we won. If we lost we practiced hard. Sometimes when we won it was a little loosey goosey.

“You have to have a soldier attitude to continually get better and I think those two guys bring it. They’re no-nonsense, straightforward guys and I think they’ll set the tone and the rest of us will follow.”

Source: Chuck Gormley, CSNWashington.com