Like I said its the decision making. Hard to blame that on coaching. I guarantee they work on their breakouts in practice. Its not the same in practice. Game speed is a lot quicker than practice.
I like how we win the game 4-1 yet most people here are still negative. Do you guys realize there is another team on the ice? A good team I might add. Yes there are mistakes made every game but you have to give your opponent credit at times. Mist poor passes are made because they were forced to make a quick play. You guys think its so easy.
Demand more out of your practices. Get more from your players and it won't be so damn hard to find it when it matters. You practice how you play, how do
you not see that?
They make poor passes because the urgency isn't there as a unit. If your passing is crisp, and your decisions are simple to make, you create more time and space for the player receiving the puck to make his reads. Every time Carlson or Niskanen bank a pass that has just enough speed to get there before a forechecker, they put their partner in a tough position that they never needed to be in.
You can coach that out. It isn't being coached out, coincidentally, because as people have been saying in this thread and others, time after time, the Capitals don't practice puck movement very comprehensively.
Give credit to the other team for seizing on what you're giving them, but that doesn't change the fact that you need to look for any and all areas of improvement in your team's play. The Capitals don't address and minimize those specific windows. They ought to call them "good enough" passes because you can practically see it in the body language of the passer, and they're just not being hammered out of anyone's game the way they should be if you want to win in the playoffs. The Capitals create 50/50 pucks for themselves constantly.
