“That’s something we’re paying close attention to and working on. First and foremost, it’s the power play. How can we best use Alex and his shots, how can we move him around the court to create the most scoring opportunities for him? Because at the moment, he has a power play goal, and for us, it’s a kind of “back door” that we haven’t used yet.
Washington head coach spoke about his impressions of working with Ovechkin
He scored on a power play against Toronto from an unusual position. In other words, we never saw him shoot the puck from his “desk”, from the point that brought so many goals to Ovechkin. So why is this happening? We peel back the onion of this mystery, trying to understand if it has anything to do with the throw. We need to understand simple technical things, like whether we’re getting enough “passes in Alex’s wheelhouse” and how we can do it more efficiently and consistently. We talk about it a lot.
However, like in five-on-five play, our entire team needs to improve on offense. Statistics show that we spend too much time in our zone. Alex and Kuzi (Evgeniy Kuznetsov) are our key players in attack, we just haven’t found the ideal line combinations yet, we haven’t got into the rhythm yet. We mix three, looking for the best, those that will work on a stable basis,” quotes Sport-Express Carbery.
Source: Sport
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