Capitals Power Play Tops Since All Star Game

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The Capitals power play has been getting better all year, and has been the best in the NHL since the All Star break, clicking at just under 30%. When you can throw a line out there featuring the league's MVP Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Nichlas Backstrom, and Mike Green, opposing teams are playing with fire by giving the Caps a power play. While everyone knows about Ovechkin's goal scoring prowess, his Russian teammate Alexander Semin has one of the league's highest scoring average per game, and was leading the league in scoring until he sustained a couple of injuries early in the season. Nicholas Backstrom is quickly becoming one of the league's premier young center's, and it sometimes seems as if he has eyes in the back of his head with his unconscious passes to his linemates. Finally, you add Mike Green, who this year set a record for goals in consecutive games for a defensemen, and became only the 8th defensemen ever to score 30 goals in a season, and you have arguably the best line in the NHL working on the power play. With this kind of firepower, the Caps should have great success if they can draw their share of penalties and let the best power play in the NHL do its thing.

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