Capitals 'has to find a way to score' to get back to East 2nd Round Series

Raleigh, NC – Tom Wilson immediately turned on what the Washington Capitals have to do to return to Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the Eastern Conference.

“It will be all four lines after another press, push, push,” said Wilson after a 5-2 loss in game 4 in the Lenovo Center on Monday, the Washington in the best-of-7 series with 3-1. “And we slowly try to push them out of this series.”

The capitals begin better to end their chances as they did in the regular season if you want to advance this series on Thursday (7:00 p.m. ET; Max, Trutv, TNT, SN, TVAS) against the Hurricanes Beyond Game 5 in the Capital One Arena.

According to NHL Edge Advanced Statistics, Washington did not achieve with a high-Danger goal in the series with 0 to 24 goal. The Hurricanes have goals on four of their 24 high-Dangers in the series, including two out of five in game 4 (one War Andrei Svechnikov's goal from LeanNetz).

The Carolina goalkeeper Frederik Andersen leads the Stanley Cup playoffs with a percentage of 0.933 savings for high-channel shots in goal and stops 42 of 45.

“We just have to find one way to score a goal,” said Washington striker Alex Ovechkin. “Obviously he feels it, but we have to find dirty goals, bounced up, redirect. We will take a deep breath. The series is not over yet.”

The capitals were one of the better teams in the league in the regular season when they achieved their high-Dangers on 137 out of 616, which was a shooting share of 22.2 percent in the league.

They were above the league average in high-Danger hits (593.9) and far above the league average for goals in high-Danger shots (119.9).

It was a completely different story against the hurricanes, and it is not all because of Andersen.

“I think he still sees a lot of pucks quite easily and we don't make it difficult for him,” said Connor McMichael, striker of Capitals. “That means he is playing lights out and everything he sees will save. We still have space to improve in this area, and the next game has to get more traffic over him.”

Part of the capital problem is that you simply do not generate enough quality to turn the law of average values ​​in your favor.

The Hurricanes can live with six high-Danger goal shots per game because they control the puck ownership, aggressively prepare in order to force sales and bring pucks from almost anywhere to the net.

You have 126 goal shots and 329 Total -Shot tests in the series.

The capitals have 77 shots of goal and 187 trials, of which 50 were blocked in the last two games, both losses.

The simple math says that the more you shoot, the better you have to score a goal.

“You know [offensive] Zone, so sometimes you have to feel comfortable every few minutes or once or twice for the time with a really big opportunity, “said Pierre-Luc Dubois before game 4.

But if the capitals get the puck and possibly have a chance, it seems to be a bit of hesitation if a high danger chance could clearly lead through a tip, a distraction or a rebound.