Unless the coach is referring to Mika Zibanejad or Alexandar Georgiev, you don’t really want David Quinn to compare something in the early going to what happened last year.
Unfortunately, when Quinn on Monday made a reference to “for long stretches we looked like last year,” he was talking about penalty killing in Sunday’s 3-2 defeat to Vancouver in which the Canucks went 1-for-3 after the Caps went 2-for-4 with the man-advantage in D.C. on Friday.
That followed the strong work through the first four games in which the penalty-kill units yielded three goals while shorthanded 19 times.