The Washington Capitals have some sort of issue solving the Columbus Blue Jackets this season, falling to them by three goals yet again on Monday night.
The Caps out-shot the Jackets 30 to 21 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 41 to 31.
- I don’t think the Caps necessarily played that bad in this game outside of a few individual errors. The bounces just did not go their way the entire night and the puck just refused to find the back of the Columbus net. It felt like the Jackets never even had the puck for the latter two periods.
- Alex Ovechkin is apparently never going to score again in December.
Alex Ovechkin recorded five shots in the second period, a single-period high among Capitals skaters this season.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) December 17, 2019
- The Caps first line were a minus-two at five-on-five, yet controlled around 70-percent of the shot attempts, over 53-percent of the scoring chances, and over 70-percent of the high danger chances when they were on the ice. That’s some PDO demons at work right there.
- Dmitry Orlov was pretty darn good. Again. With him on the ice at evens the Caps held a plus-13 shot attempt differential, a plus-11 scoring chance differential, and a plus-3 high danger chance differential.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com and NaturalStatTrick.com.
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