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Special Teams Continuing to Cost Caps

“I don’t want to talk too much about it. It’s just — it’s not good enough. We’ve got to fix it quickly. It’s costing us games.”

That was Tom Wilson’s blunt assessment of the Caps’ 0-for-4 power play performance in a Halloween loss to the Islanders.

Nearly two weeks – and three losses in four games – later, Dylan Strome offered this review of the team’s special teams:

“Kind of the story of our season so far. Great five-on-five, I thought, for the most part. … We’re a great team at five-on-five right now.