The first 'Bag of the saddest hockey month. Let's do this:
@JapersRink Do you think Green's departure will have a meaningful impact on Ovi's goal total (especially on the PP)?
— Michael Marks (@Michael_Marks91) August 4, 2015
Back in mid-March we looked at the question of which Caps blueliner should run the point on the power play (and we touched on it in this very space last week). Here's what we said in March regarding Mike Green's and John Carlson's respective abilities to set Alex Ovechkin up for his patented power-play one-timer:
This is the bread and butter of the Caps' power play; everyone knows it's coming, but they still can't stop it.