5 strategies the Capitals should do after the holiday break

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#4 Some power play experimenting

The Caps need to play around with their power play. At this point they got nothing to lose as they’re ranked near the bottom at 28th in the league with a success rate of 15.6 percent. Here’s how the units currently look:

1st unit: Tom Wilson, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin, John Carlson

2nd unit: Aliaksei Protas, Lars Eller, Conor Sheary, Alex Ovechkin, Dmitry Orlov

Here’s what I would do, and it would be what the people want, insert Connor McMichael into either Aliaksei Protas or Conor Sheary‘s spot on the second unit. Maybe even flip McMichael and Backstrom as it would be risky putting him on the top power play unit right off the bat coming off a long term injury.

McMichael has four goals and five assists for nine points in 29 games. His numbers could spike just by simply getting power play time. Like I said, what do the Caps have to lose in this situation?

And why is Protas there and not McMichael? That is definitely another hot debate. I won’t subtract Conor Sheary since he’s on a career high five game point streak. How would you tweak the Caps power play so it can improve in the second half?

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