6 – Number of Capitals who have scored at least ten goals this season, two more players than any other team in the NHL. Alex Ovechkin leads the pack with 20, followed by Jakub Vrana with 14, and four others – Tom Wilson, Evgeny Kuznetsov, T.J. Oshie and John Carlson – checking in with 11.
Carlson is the latest to join this club thanks to his two-goal effort last night against the Kings. He becomes just the fifth defenseman in team history to score at least 10 goals through the team’s first 30 games, and the first one to do so since Sergei Gonchar put up 10 to kick off the 2002-03 season.