2011-12 Rink Wrap: Karl Alzner   Karl Alzner  #27 / Defenseman /
Washington Capitals    Sep 24, 1988  2 (and parts of two others)
$1,285,000 cap hit through 2012-13; RFA summer 2013  7.81 rating
5.79 rating  6.59 rating  Regular Season 82 1 16 17 12 29 0 0 0
56 1.8 Playoffs 14 0 2 2 -1 0 0 0 0 13 0.0  Key Stat: Alzner has
only missed one game in his NHL career due to injury, and has
played every game, regular season and playoffs, in each of the
past two seasons.  Interesting Stat: Alzner scored more goals
and had more assists and points per sixty minutes of five-on-
five ice time than Mike Green in 2011-12.  The Good: If 2010-11
was Alzner's breakout season, 2011-12 was confirmation that it
was no fluke and that Karl Alzner was exactly the player the
Caps thought he would be when they drafted him fifth overall in
2007.  Despite one or two rough spots along the way, Alzner
turned in a spectacular 2011-12, defensively. In fact, the only
other defensemen in hockey to face tougher competition (as
measured by Cor