The Capitals focused on finishing and offense at Tuesday's skate in Los Angeles.
The Washington Capitals are moving on quickly from Monday's 2-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks, as they took the ice for practice and got right back to work in Los Angeles on Tuesday. There were two key members of the group who were absent, though.
Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson both took maintenance days and did not skate, per The Washington Post's Bailey Johnson.
Ovechkin and Carlson each skated over 22 minutes last night (Ovechkin 22:02, Carlson 25:27), so it could be rest-related with the team facing the Kings and Anaheim Ducks back-to-back on Wednesday and Thursday.
Although those two were out of the mix, head coach Spencer Carbery still got to work on trying to ignite his offense, not just on the power play but at even strength.
The first-year head coach and the group not only looked at film from Monday's game — a matchup with which the team was mostly satisfied with the exception of the result — but aslo tried to apply some of those takeaways to bolstering offense at t Tuesday's practice.
"There was a bunch of stuff that we looked at from quality shot generation, traffic. We just gotta find more ways, we gotta look at it. Can we get more pucks inside there, can we get a little bit more traffic, can we find a way to finish in some areas? We worked on it today in practice, we talk about it, we look at different options from the film and continue to build and work at it and get better.”
The Capitals face the Kings at 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday.