Japers' Rink · Dec 12, 2019
The Noon Number: Hags or Hag Nots
Photo by Patrick McDermott/NHLI via Getty Images88.5 - The Capitals’ penalty-killing percentage when Carl Hagelin has been in the lineup this season. They’ve given up just nine power-play goals on 79 times shorthanded with a healthy 62, and have killed off 16 straight penalties since Hagelin’s return from injury on December 3.
That’s a huge difference from the performance of the Caps’ penalty kill when Hagelin was injured. During Hagelin’s 11-game absence in November, the team ceded almost as many power-play goals as they had the rest of the season in roughly half as many chances - eight goals on 37 times shorthanded, to be exact, for a PK% of just 78.4% over that span.