.071 – The players-per-goal rate for the Capitals on the power play since the start of the 2005-06 season, lowest in the League. Dating back to Alex Ovechkin’s rookie season, the Caps have gotten power-play contributions from just 58 players – also fewest in the League, with the average at just over 73 – and yet have put up the third-most power-play goals over that span.
Not surprisingly, those 58 players are led by Alex Ovechkin, who has pitched in with 235 of the team’s 815 goals on the power play – just under 29% of the total output, far and away the largest percentage for any one team (Steven Stamkos sits at a distant second with “just” 16.5% of his team’s 771 power-play goals).
So far this season, however, the Caps are spreading the wealth a little bit more than usual. While Ovechkin still leads the team in power-play goals with seven, Evgeny Kuznetsov is right behind him with six, and with Tom Wilson’s goal Monday night, eight different players have chipped in – just about League average to date.