Rangers, Capitals have plenty of thrilling playoff history in nation's capital

WASHINGTON — I walked into the cramped visitors' locker room following Friday morning's optional skate hours in advance of this Rangers-Caps Game 3 and my mind's eye saw Chris Drury sitting in the first stall to the right. I wasn't envisioning Drury, the club's current general manager. Instead, I was envisioning Drury, No. 23 and the club's captain in 2011, talking softly to me, head bowed, after the Rangers' five-game, first-round elimination to the Caps. That turned out to be the final game of Drury's NHL career. I walked deeper into the room and when K'Andre Miller plunked himself down in the middle of the row to the left, my mind's eye saw Ryan McDonagh, hunched over and exhausted after getting