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HONOLULU -- Boise State left the swim trunks home.I dont think its about going to the beach, its not about those things and thats one of the things about going to Hawaii and playing, coach Bryan Harsin said Thursday about the No. 24 Broncos trip to face Hawaii on Saturday night.I think if we start looking ahead at, `Hey, were traveling to Hawaii, thats a problem. Were going to play Hawaii and theyre a very good team.The Broncos (8-1, 4-1 Mountain West) got off to a 7-0 start before losing at Wyoming, 30-28. They bounced back with a 45-31 victory over San Jose State last Friday night behind a pair of 100-yard rushers in Jeremy McNichols (158 yards, two touchdowns) and Alex Mattison (100, one touchdown).McNichols, a 5-foot-9, 207-pound junior, has eclipsed the 100-yard mark in seven games this season, including his last four games. He set career-highs in carries (40), rushing yards (217) and all-purpose yards (264) in a 28-23 win over Colorado State a month ago.McNichols ranks fourth nationally with 1,216 rushing yards and leads all FBS players with 20 touchdowns this season. Since the start of last season, he has scored 46 touchdowns, more than any other player. McNichols, who has scored a touchdown in 21 consecutive games, is on the watch lists for both the Maxwell and Doak Walker awards.As good as the Broncos have been running the ball, they can just as well air it out with sophomore quarterback Brett Rypien, who leads the Mountain West in passing yards (2,578), touchdowns (18) and total offense (282.4 yards per game).Rypien, last years Mountain West Freshman of the Year and a First Team all-conference pick, is already sixth on Boise States passing yardage list (5,931) and eighth in touchdown passes (38). His favorite target has been senior receiver Thomas Sperbeck, who has 57 catches for 909 yards and seven touchdowns this season. Sperbeck became the schools career leader in receiving yards (3,238) when he passed Titus Young against BYU on Oct. 20 this season.Theyre a strong team, Hawaii defensive coordinator Kevin Lempa said. Again, theyre another team that runs the football, but along with that theyve got some good receivers and their quarterback is a drop-back, pro-style quarterback that can throw the ball also.The Rainbow Warriors (4-6, 3-3) are coming off their worst loss of the season, a 55-0 drubbing at San Diego State. It was their worst loss since losing by the same score at Boise State last season.Hawaii first-year coach Nick Rolovich said facing the Broncos who have won the last five meetings and 11 of the 14 overall against the Rainbow Warriors will serve as a gut check.We have to respond because that was as poor or a performance at San Diego State that we could have drawn up, so weve got a lot of bounce back that we need to do this week, Rolovich said. (San Diego State and Boise State) are the guys that we have to aspire to be like if we want to compete in this conference consistently, so we got a first-hand look and weve obviously got a long way to go, but were looking forward to the challenge that Boise is going to bring.Hawaiis last win in the series came in 2007, when it went on to a Sugar Bowl appearance. All three of its wins against Boise State have come in Honolulu.We have to understand what were getting into, Harsin said. They played in some big games this year, too. 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ARLINGTON, Va. -- When Matt Niskanen contemplated skipping a trip to the gym over the summer, he remembered what happened in May.As the offseason went on, Niskanen thought less and less about the Washington Capitals loss to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Instead, he let the memory of the second-round playoff exit fuel him from time to time.That hurt, it lingers, and I think you can use that as motivation, Niskanen said. That kind of stuff creeps into your mind and it pushes you.Now several months removed from another painful playoff loss, the Capitals came to training camp ready to harness whatever energy they could from that while also preparing to move past it and focus on another run at the Cup this season. Almost the entire roster is back from the Presidents Trophy-winning team that ran roughshod over the NHL during the regular season, and with Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and goaltender Braden Holtby in their primes, there isnt time to waste on reflection and hindsight.You need to see where things went awry and try to rectify it, said veteran winger Justin Williams, one of several players with one year left on his contract. We set a standard with having successful teams, a team every year fans can look at and say, `You know, we legitimately have a chance to win it again. As players we embrace that and we respect it and we know that these opportunities that we have in front of us arent forever.Along with Williams, winger T.J. Oshie and defenseman Karl Alzner could be unrestricted free agents July 1. Restricted free agent center Evgeny Kuznetsov will get a big raise on a new deal, and Washingtons salary cap picture will get more difficult as the years go on.Ovechkin also just turned 31, and while he led the league in goal-scoring last season, theres no certainty as to how long his Hall of Fame-caliber production will keep up. After winning the division by 16 points and losing in the second round -- again -- general manager Brian MacLellan doesnt think theres a bigger burden on winning this year with so many unknowns on the horizonn.ddddddddddddI think theres pressure every year, MacLellan said. Last year we were a contender, theres pressure. Same pressure this year. We have a goal of winning a championship. We know were close and we need to pursue it and well do everything we can to get there.Alzner was just starting to get over the early exit when pictures of the Penguins celebrating with the Cup filled up his social media feeds. The ironman whose groin injury forced him out of the deciding Game 6 and led to sports hernia surgery scoffed at the notion that Pittsburgh winning makes the loss easier to take.Its worse, in my opinion, because then you really think, `OK if I could have got past that team then the Cup was ours, said Alzner, whos still working his way back to 100 percent. I think that all of us in the room thought that we were going to win that last year.Being great in the regular season and losing in the first or second round has become the Capitals reputation over the past decade. The 2015-16 team was perhaps the best on paper, which made the late stumble into summer that much more confounding.As more top players continue to trickle back into town after playing in the World Cup of Hockey, associate coach Todd Reirden expects the staff to impart lessons about last season on the full group. Early in camp, the mood is light with players eager to make a fresh start and learn from losing to the Penguins.Asked what the Capitals can do to improve, Williams deadpanned: We can finish the season with a win. Thats it.Thats a challenge that cant be accomplished until the spring. Players, coaches and fans may want to fast-forward until then, but Washington has to again get there first.Youve got to be patient, center Jay Beagle said. The game has to develop. Weve got new guys, so we want to go into this year making sure were playing our best going into the end of the year and in the playoffs.---Follow Stephen Whyno on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/SWhyno . ' ' '