John Carlson
I’m just going to point this out now. Carlson is not making this list this week thanks to his defense. I did not think he was very good in that part of the game this week. That being said, you could say that for most of the team for the last little while here.
John Carlson led the team in scoring this week, possibly extending his lead for the Norris Trophy with every point scored? He registered four points this week with three of them being primary points. He scored one goal and three assists, two of the assists being primary.
While on the ice the Capitals were able to get 60 shot attempts while allowing 50 attempts against. That gives Carlson a 54.55% Corsi rating this week. On the downside, the Caps had 26 scoring chances for and 29 against with Carlson on the ice. The only guy who had more chances against while on the ice was Dmitry Orlov who had 30 against.
Carlson was also the third worst Capital this week in high danger shot attempt%. He had five attempts for and 13 attempts against while on the ice. But, like I said to start, he didn’t make this list thanks to his defense.
He had the third most shots on goal this week with 10, behind only Jakub Vrana (13) and Alex Ovechkin (21). He had four individual scoring chances this week as well. That was tied with Kempny for most among defensemen.
With the good comes the bad, at least recently with Carlson. This week he had seven giveaways which was more than twice the amount the next highest guys had. Both Tom Wilson and Ovechkin had three giveaways. He has to clean that up going forward.
He didn’t have the greatest week on D, but he did plenty to help out on offense. Clean up the defense and Carlson will once again be the undisputed Norris Trophy favorite. But awards aren’t handed out just yet, so Carlson will have to settle for one of our stars of the week. Lucky him. His imaginary check will be in the mail shortly.