"Strome's absence has forced Carbery to pair a new center, Connor McMichael, with Alex Ovechkin. Over the past three seasons, Ovechkin and McMichael have shared the ice at five-on-five for 403:06 of ice time, struggling mightily to provide the Capitals with good minutes. During their shared ice time, the team has seen just 43.1 percent of shot attempts, 38.3 percent of expected goals, 44.8 percent of scoring chances, and 42.5 percent of high-danger chances."
""[Ovechkin] has some tendencies that you need to be aware of and sort of where he likes pucks or where he's going to be on the ice and communication style and all that sort of stuff," Carbery said. "Mikey, I think, has played with him enough for us to feel comfortable because if you remember, he played quite a bit with him last year. He was playing on the wing, not in the middle, so it changes it a little bit.""
Dylan Strome is out with a lower-body injury, prompting the Capitals to reshuffle all four forward lines and recall Ethen Frank from the Hershey Bears. Connor McMichael will center Alex Ovechkin despite the pairing having struggled over 403:06 of five-on-five ice time with sub-45 percent results in shot attempts, expected goals, scoring chances, and high-danger chances. Ryan Leonard joins that line while riding a career-best four-game point streak. Aliaksei Protas, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Tom Wilson reunite as a second line that previously produced over 56 percent share in shot attempts, expected goals, and scoring chances.
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