Japers’ Rink says that this is an opportunity for the rest of the Capitals to take the next step and play together in Ovechkin’s absence. It’s something the Penguins did when Sidney Crosby was out in 2008, and now it’s the Capitals’ turn:
Japers’ Rink Analyzes How Caps Will Respond
It’s time for Alexander Semin to shoot first . . . and reclaim his own superstar status.
It’s time for Tomas Fleischmann (perhaps on a top line?) to possibly crack the 20-goal per season pace, and beyond.
It’s time for Chris Clark to find some semblance of an offensive game again, working consistently with more offensively-gifted linemates.
It’s time for the coaching staff, and the members of the power play squads, to re-invent new strategies of attack.
It’s time for the organization to again test it’s heralded offensive depth, including those waiting for just this moment in Chocolate Town.
It’s time for the defense, currently sitting at 21st in the league in GA/G, to get a little tighter, a little meaner, its passes crisper, its checking more, well, finished. Those top scoring lines won’t as easily get that goal back. Ditto for Messrs. Theodore and Varlamov.
It’s time for a sixty-minute effort, and not a “fifty-one minute” one.
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