The Washington Capitals have 14 games remaining, but there aren’t many surprises waiting within them. By now we know who this team is. We know who will play and who will sit, who will be used where, who will drive play and who will be on his heels, who will celebrate and who will be blamed.
The Caps are a bottom-ten team in shot attempts and a bottom-five team in expected goals. They are top-ten on the power play and middle-of-the-pack on penalty kill. A goalie switch and some depth defensive improvements move the margins a bit, but it seems viciously obvious where this team’s ceiling is: the second round of the playoffs.
Unless. This week’s snapshot is about unless.
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | Rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vrana | 61 | 743 | 51.5 | +4.3 | 50.9 | 99.4 |
Burakovsky | 42 | 497 | 51.5 | +3.3 | 40.0 | 97.6 |
Backstrom | 67 | 961 | 51.1 | +4.5 | 56.5 | 102.1 |
Wilson | 64 | 875 | 51.1 | +4.0 | 53.1 | 101.8 |
Ovechkin | 68 | 1011 | 50.6 | +3.7 | 57.3 | 102.7 |
Oshie | 62 | 840 | 50.1 | +2.8 | 57.9 | 102.0 |
Eller | 67 | 782 | 48.5 | +0.5 | 46.9 | 100.1 |
Kuznetsov | 68 | 972 | 47.5 | -0.8 | 55.7 | 102.6 |
Connolly | 59 | 614 | 46.8 | -2.0 | 48.2 | 102.4 |
Stephenson | 54 | 565 | 44.7 | -4.0 | 58.3 | 103.3 |
Chiasson | 53 | 498 | 44.0 | -4.3 | 43.6 | 100.7 |
Smith-Pelly | 63 | 703 | 43.9 | -5.2 | 47.2 | 100.6 |
Beagle | 68 | 658 | 39.5 | -10.5 | 45.5 | 101.9 |
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | Rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kempny | 39 | 567 | 52.7 | +1.1 | 59.1 | 102.3 |
Djoos | 56 | 749 | 51.8 | +4.9 | 56.7 | 102.1 |
Orlov | 68 | 1303 | 50.0 | +3.1 | 54.5 | 101.6 |
Jerabek | 28 | 449 | 49.6 | +0.9 | 44.8 | 99.2 |
Niskanen | 54 | 1013 | 49.1 | +1.4 | 57.7 | 103.3 |
Carlson | 68 | 1200 | 49.1 | +1.7 | 49.5 | 100.8 |
Bowey | 51 | 675 | 45.3 | -3.4 | 44.4 | 100.1 |
Orpik | 68 | 1108 | 43.9 | -6.3 | 41.0 | 99.6 |
Player | Attempts | Unblocked | On net | Scoring chances | High-danger chances | Expected goals | Goals |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlson | 62.5 | 48.1 | 33.2 | 32.5 | 13.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
Orpik | 65.7 | 50.3 | 35.5 | 34.0 | 13.9 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
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