This makes me feel smart:

After the failed Joe Motzko and Chris Bourque experiments, Washington has moved to a new option for their first line right wing. Per Tarik, the Capitals have recalled Eric Fehr and he’s practicing with the first line and as part of the reshuffling the Capitals have moved Viktor Kozlov to the second line and have him playing center.

With five goals in their last three games (four by Alex Ovechkin; the other assisted by him) this move is an attempt by the Capitals to get at least two of their lines scoring again. Alexander Semin and Tomas Fleischmann have been ineffective since Michael Nylander went down for the season with his rotator cuff injury, and oftentimes the pair has looked downright lost. By moving Kozlov to the second line, the hope is that a more offensively inclined center can get Semin and Fleischmann rolling again.

This is a good move for the Capitals for a number of reasons. It has become pretty clear that the second line wasn’t going to produce offensively the way the team would want with Brooks Laich, Boyd Gordon or David Steckel as the pivot and this move lets the Caps try a more offensively-inclined player at that spot without giving anyone up. Playing Fehr with Backstrom and Ovechkin has the potential to be a very good fit since Fehr is primarily a goal scoring forward, giving Backstrom (a pure playmaker) another option and making the opposition’s defense have to focus on someone other than Ovechkin. The timing is also good - getting Fehr back at this point is, in many ways, like making a trade without giving up any players and the Capitals can now asses the impact Fehr can have on the team, while still giving George McPhee time to make a trade for another top six forward if that becomes necessary.