1 – Number of five-on-five goals scored by the Caps’ top line since Andre Burakovsky scored a pair of them 16 games ago against Anaheim, excluding those tallied by Alex Ovechkin. Here’s a breakout of who’s played on the top line over that stretch and what they have(n’t) done while there:
Player | Games on the 1st Line | Five-on-Five Goals |
Alex Ovechkin | 15 | 5 |
Nicklas Backstrom | 16 | 0 |
Marcus Johansson | 8 | 1 |
Andre Burakovsky | 6 | 0 |
Tom Wilson | 2 | 0 |
Jay Beagle | 1 | 0 |
Over the same span, the Caps’ top trio has been on the ice for two goals by defensemen, meaning that blueliners have scored twice as many non-Ovi goals as forwards with the first line out there.
And in case you’re wondering, here’s that lone non-Ovechkin-first-line-forward marker, the sixth goal in a 6-1 rout of Buffalo: