Here are our Washington Capitals three stars of the week for week two.
Another week, another set of games to analyze. That means more good performances and more praise to be handed out. If you didn’t catch last weeks edition of our stars of the week be sure to do so. We’ll be doing this every week and you can’t miss a single edition. In fact I think it might be a law, or at least they’re working on it becoming a law. Don’t. Break. The law.
It was a pretty up and down week for the Capitals. Both in terms of results and how the games went. The overall team record was 1-1-1. It was a week where the Capitals performed well then fell off, that resulting in a couple of blown third period leads.
A few disappointing results shouldn’t cloud the fact that there were some impressive individual or line performances. We’re going to look at those performances now.
John Carlson
I don’t think John Carlson was the most noticeable Capital this past week. There is something impressive about his week however and that is his stats. This week there was a couple of Caps who scored four points in the teams three games. That ranks second behind Carlson who had seven points. Carlson nearly doubled the second most amount of points this week and he also scored two goals. Not bad.
His advanced stats look pretty good as well. His shot attempts percentage was a good 56.52% and that led to some good scoring chances with his scoring chance percentage 65% which was second of the team behind Brendan Leipsic.
Carlson also had five individual scoring chances for which was first among Caps defensemen, the next highest being Dmitry Orlov with two.
Another thing to note from Carlson’s week was his seven blocked shots. That was second on the team to Nick Jensen.
Was Carlson unstoppable and on a rampage this past week? No, but he was good. He put up a ton a points (over two a game) and his advanced stats look good. In a week where not a ton of guys stood out I think Carlson is deserving of one of our stars of the week.