The Washington Capitals and those wiley Arizona Coyotes matched up in a game that was the last of a Caps homestand before they head westward into much colder land. The Caps didn’t do too hot, falling 4-1 after their penalty kill imploded once again.
The Capitals out-shot the Coyotes 39 to 22 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 47 to 36.
- Heat maps on NSS seem to be broken at the moment. Above is their gameflow chart giving you the five-on-five shot attempt differential as Sunday night’s game progressed.
- The Caps penalty kill has now allowed six power play goals against in the team’s last four games. This game really wasn’t all that bad from an even strength perspective, the Caps just got burned specials teams wise.
- John Carlson returned from injury and in doing so played in his 623rd career game with the Capitals. Those 623 games played are the sixth most by any Capitals defensemen. Carlson passed Sylvain Cote and next up he will surely do the same to Brendan Witt (626 games).
- After starting the season with 15 points in 10 October games, Evgeny Kuznetsov has gone cold in November. Kuzy is under a point per game this month with 5 points in 6 games and only two of those points have come at even strength.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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