Photo: Rob Carr
For a good part of the early season, the Caps were playing like they had discovered the goal cheat in NHL ’94, imported Bo Jackson’s dominance from Tecmo Bowl, and mastered the Madden truck stick. They were dominant. While the team has continued to rack up the points and now sits one point out of the lead in the Eastern Conference with three games in hand, the dominance isn’t there anymore. The process has had some troubling signs of late.
In week 2, we talked about the long road that is an NHL season. The long road has hit some bumps lately, but is it time to be concerned? Are these bumps just an inevitable part of the process of an 82-game season, or are the Caps coming back down to earth a bit and won’t return to their dominant ways? Let’s run the numbers and dig into all of this.
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
Backstrom | 25 | 376.62 | 58.13 | 8.28 | 69.57 | 103.15 |
Ovechkin | 27 | 420.82 | 55.82 | 5.28 | 66.67 | 103.50 |
Williams | 28 | 357.86 | 54.45 | 3.20 | 61.29 | 101.92 |
Oshie | 28 | 399.02 | 54.17 | 2.97 | 66.67 | 102.94 |
Laich | 28 | 238.29 | 53.95 | 2.20 | 28.57 | 93.78 |
Johansson | 27 | 373.69 | 51.59 | -0.38 | 72 | 105.26 |
Latta | 18 | 147.22 | 50.96 | 0.49 | 41.67 | 97.20 |
Burakovsky | 25 | 281.10 | 50.09 | -3.32 | 44.44 | 99.27 |
Kuznetsov | 28 | 391.72 | 49.88 | -3.17 | 66.67 | 104.29 |
Beagle | 28 | 334.02 | 47.94 | -5.54 | 50 | 100.83 |
Chimera | 28 | 307.45 | 47.58 | -5.58 | 4091 | 98.17 |
Wilson | 28 | 294.91 | 46.72 | -6.78 | 44.44 | 9949 |
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
Orlov | 28 | 362.68 | 57.2 | 4.72 | 62.96 | 104.60 |
Schmidt | 23 | 382.40 | 54.16 | 4.91 | 58.33 | 101.24 |
Chorney | 19 | 224.98 | 53.08 | -0.25 | 61.11 | 106.58 |
Niskanen | 28 | 516.04 | 52.84 | -1.22 | 58.06 | 101.45 |
Carlson | 28 | 506.01 | 52.44 | -1.87 | 51.52 | 102.53 |
Alzner | 28 | 484.34 | 50.59 | -2.53 | 62.07 | 99.07 |
Orpik | 14 | 231.89 | 50.18 | -6.65 | 43.48 | 95.85 |
All numbers, unless otherwise cited or linked to, are from War on Ice
Russian Machine Never Breaks is not associated with the Washington Capitals; Monumental Sports, the NHL, or its properties. Not even a little bit.
All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks.com is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)– unless otherwise stated or superseded by another license. You are free to share, copy, and remix this content so long as it is attributed, done for noncommercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.
Share On