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To help celebrate NBC Rivalry Night, NHL com will look at a rivalry within the rivalry of the featured game on Wednesday nights. For this week we are trying to determine which team has the better power play, the Pittsburgh Penguins or Washington Capitals.
Body movement, puck movement and superior skill are three ingredients that make any power play successful. It's no surprise that the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins have been feasting on opposing penalty-kill units all season.
"I've seen power plays with lots of good players, but they're static," NHL Network analyst Craig Button told NHL.com. "It's different with these two teams."
The Capitals and Penguins have built the NHL's best power plays by utilizing all or some of the aforementioned three ingredients. They each had power plays that are clicking at a 25.2-percent clip entering play Tuesday. The Penguins, who were idle Tuesday, have scored on 39 of their 155 opportunities while the Capitals were successful on 40 of their 159 chances before playing the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Division rivals will match power play wits and skill Wednesday at Verizon Center (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2, RDS).
"It's really hard to keep track of the top players when there is so much movement," Button added. "And they have the skill levels to where they can move the puck into good spots. It's pretty impressive. And they can attack you from multiple areas on the ice. They can attack you from the wall, the middle, below the goal line. When you've got that much to defend … you get overwhelmed."
The Penguins and Capitals attempt to overwhelm the opposing penalty-kill units in different ways. Is one way better than the other?
source: nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=700603
To help celebrate NBC Rivalry Night, NHL com will look at a rivalry within the rivalry of the featured game on Wednesday nights. For this week we are trying to determine which team has the better power play, the Pittsburgh Penguins or Washington Capitals.
"I've seen power plays with lots of good players, but they're static," NHL Network analyst Craig Button told NHL.com. "It's different with these two teams."
The Capitals and Penguins have built the NHL's best power plays by utilizing all or some of the aforementioned three ingredients. They each had power plays that are clicking at a 25.2-percent clip entering play Tuesday. The Penguins, who were idle Tuesday, have scored on 39 of their 155 opportunities while the Capitals were successful on 40 of their 159 chances before playing the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Division rivals will match power play wits and skill Wednesday at Verizon Center (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2, RDS).
"It's really hard to keep track of the top players when there is so much movement," Button added. "And they have the skill levels to where they can move the puck into good spots. It's pretty impressive. And they can attack you from multiple areas on the ice. They can attack you from the wall, the middle, below the goal line. When you've got that much to defend … you get overwhelmed."
The Penguins and Capitals attempt to overwhelm the opposing penalty-kill units in different ways. Is one way better than the other?
source: nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=700603
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