Overview
- Ovechkin has two goals through 12 games and is on a four-game goal drought, leaving him at 899 career goals.
- Washington has lost four straight, producing five total goals over the skid and going 0-for-13 on the power play.
- Carbery says he is satisfied with Ovechkin’s five-on-five play and remains comfortable with his heavy power-play usage.
- The captain missed significant training-camp time with a lower-body issue, which he says affected timing and conditioning early.
- The staff briefly separated Ovechkin from Dylan Strome for shifts with Hendrix Lapierre and Ryan Leonard as they search for offense.