Capitals as Stanley Cup Favorites?

I'm getting ready to watch the Caps vs. the Lightning and they're interviewing Dmitry Chesnokov who writes for SovSports.ru on Washington Post Live. So of course I'm I interested and check the site... but of course it's all in Russian.

Thanks to the google translator, I find this article talking about Alex Ovechkin. I throw it through Google's translator (translate article) and find this interesting nugget at the beginning of the fourth paragraph:

That is why "Washington" in my opinion - one of the Stanley Cup favorites.

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The argument being that if you extrapolate the Caps record (77 points in 59 games) since Bruce Boudreau took over, they would be the best team in the league with 107 points. A stretch, and probably a "homer" stretch considering the 4 Russian players on the team (Ovechkin, Kozlov, Semin and Federov), but I'm not complaining.