What's behind Alex Ovechkin's goal-scoring drop?

On Tuesday, Alex Ovechkin makes his final regular-season stop in Tampa, the third date on his final tour around the NHL.

Of course, this year, Ovechkin's offensive production has been nothing near what we have seen in the past, as the Capitals near the quarter point of the season the NHL's all-time leading goal-scorer is currently on pace for 5 goals - when it wasn't too long ago you needed to add a zero behind that number.

It's been a month since Ovechkin has lit the lamp, scoring on October 11 against the Seattle Kraken, Washington's 5th game of the year. Now, the Capitals are 17 games deep into the year heading into Saturday's game against New Jersey and that is still his only marker of…