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Washington Capitals: Fixing their Power Play is critical in playoffs

Tom Wilson, Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The Washington Capitals power play needs to improve.

For the Washington Capitals to have a successful Stanley Cup playoff run this year, they need to fix their power play. When one thinks of the Caps power play it should be one of the strongest in the league.

With weapons like Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and John Carlson, it should light up the lamp night after night. It did in the early going but over the final three months before the season was paused, they struggled.