Ryan Lindgren and Charlie Lindgren are in the same division now, so there isn’t much time to hang out. The brothers — Ryan, the Rangers defenseman, is just shy of five years younger than Charlie, the Capitals goalie — never had much of a matchup history before the NHL thanks to their age gap, so the Rangers-Caps games this season held keen interest for the family and friends back in Minnesota.
There was a large Lindgren contingent at the back-to-back afternoon games in Washington and New York on Jan. 13 and 14. Right around that weekend, we decided to see if the brothers could come...