Washington Capitals Playoffs: Top 3 ways to upset Bruins

#2 Special teams especially power play has to come alive

The Capitals power play was lethal in the regular season but so far in the playoffs it’s been quiet. In Game 4, they went one for seven on the man advantage and it doomed them.

Alex Ovechkin‘s power play goal from a stick snapped in half that went off a Bruin was the first and only goal the Caps scored Friday night.

In an article by Stars and Sticks alum Andrew Gillis of NBC Sports Washington, Nicklas Backstrom spoke of the Caps power play woes:

"“I feel like we have to come up with something new here. I feel like they’re reading us pretty well. So we can talk about that tomorrow and get better. We’ve just got to get some more shots and just create those secondary chances, I think.”"

The Caps had six shots and allowed two Bruins shots in 10:38 total of power play time. Overall in the series they are an abysmal three for 17. That’s 17.6 percent.

Here’s what the power play units will look like, reported from morning skate by Samantha Pell of The Washington Post:

First unit: Carlson, Ovechkin, Backstrom, Oshie, Mantha

Second unit: Orlov, Schultz, Wilson, Kuznetsov, Eller