Washington Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery explained why the team’s Russian forwards Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov no longer play together. His words guide the way Hockey News.
“We were trying to figure out what to do with those two lines because Kuznetsov and Ovechkin haven’t been good all year and they’ve been underwhelmed. We’re trying to figure something out. It puts you in a tough spot where you have to find a way to make everything fit together, so we made that change,” Carbery said.
On January 24, Washington lost to the Minnesota Wild with a score of 5:3 in a regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kuznetsov made an assist and scored a point; Ovechkin could not score a goal.
Ovechkin played in 42 regular season games this season and scored 28 (8 + 20) points. Kuznetsov has one game remaining, having scored six goals and made nine assists.
After 45 games, Washington sits 11th in the Eastern Conference with 50 points.
Previously to Ovechkin guess way out of the crisis.