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Bad goaltending and a new system make the Capitals’ penalty kill seem worse...
The Capitals’ penalty kill made changes to start the 2018-19 season. The team lost their highest and fourth-highest used penalty killers from last season in Jay Beagle and Alex Chiasson and are...
View ArticleWednesday Webhits: The Frost King’s Best Links Of The Week
Daniel Moroz, or The Frost King as some of us know him, will for now on be providing a weekly segment called “Wednesday Webhits” from now until the end of time. Trust me. He’s signed a contract in...
View ArticleWednesday Webhits: The Frost King’s Best Links Of The Week
Week two of The Frost King’s Webhits – out of 156* – has links looking at how well the Capitals’ goalies perform on the penalty kill, the diversified scoring of Washington’s forwards, which players...
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It’s The Penalty Kill, Stupid
Will the Caps be able to overcome their PK woes in the playoffs? (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) [Ed Note: With Peter galavanting in the middle of California for a wedding and Ian scrambling to keep up...
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The Capitals Improvement on the PK in 2,000 Words
Photo credit: Bruce Bennett The Washington Capitals went from a penalty kill that was 78.8% successful to one with a 85.5% success rate in just one season. How are they doing it? A picture is worth a...
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Eric Fehr Almost Scores, Blocks Shot, Gets Speared Like Crazy on OT PK
Photo credit: Chris Gordon The Washington Capitals’ 27th-ranked penalty kill was one reason the team could have missed the playoffs. Now it’s the reason they’re up 2-0 in the Eastern Conference...
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How the Capitals’ Penalty Kill is Good, and How They Can Get Even Better
Photo: Geoff Burke The Caps penalty kill is currently ranked 23rd in the NHL, killing off 77.1% of all shorthanded situations. This may give you a ‘here we go again’ feeling due to how truly awful the...
View ArticleBrilliant last season, the Capitals penalty kill is struggling through five...
Special teams was key to the Washington Capitals’ success last season. The team has long been known for its vaunted power play, but the Caps captured the Presidents’ Trophy in large part due to their...
View ArticleThe Caps penalty kill is probably going to be fine
On Saturday night, the Caps finally lost their first game of the season in regulation. They lost, in part, because their penalty kill allowed a goal for the fourth time in five games and fell to 27th...
View ArticleSizing up the Penguins: special teams
You may have read this before. In fact, one year ago, tomorrow, we published a very similar story. Some of the personnel has changed, but not much else. The Washington Capitals still use the 1-3-1 on...
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The Caps’ penalty kill is bad, but not this bad
On Friday, Isabelle Khurshudyan of the Washington Post (subscribe!) ran a great item about the Washington Capitals’ dragging penalty kill. In that piece, the pull quote from Barry Trotz was that the...
View ArticlePeter Laviolette might utilize Evgeny Kuznetsov as a penalty killer this...
Evgeny Kuznetsov is gifted offensively, but throughout his career, he’s been a liability defensively. That’s why it was news on Wednesday when Kuznetsov got several minutes on the penalty kill against...
View ArticleCapitals debut ‘noticeably more aggressive’ penalty kill under new assistant...
In July, the Washington Capitals promoted Scott Allen from head coach of the Hershey Bears to the NHL bench as one of Peter Laviolette’s assistants. One of Allen’s major responsibilities as an...
View ArticleConor Sheary relishing first real chance to kill penalties in NHL career
Washington Capitals winger Conor Sheary leads the team in goals eight games into the season but it’s his recent contributions on the penalty kill that have drawn more interest. The 30-year-old forward...
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