Spencer Carbery on Capitals keeping power play together despite early-season struggles: 'Is my patience wearing thin? Yes. But we are going to see if it works.'

"'We've thought about it, talked about it, looked at it,' head coach Spencer Carbery said after the skate. 'I'll take responsibility because I would completely understand if you sat here and go, 'Why the heck would you go back with the same power play unit that just rolled out there and looked the way it did in Buffalo?' That would be a fair assessment and question of our judgment, and my judgment as the head coach of this hockey team.'"

"'We feel like - in the past, certainly not recently, so don't even think that I'm drawing off positive things that I've seen recently - there's enough there for us to believe that they can get this on track,' Carbery said. 'Does it happen? I'm not sure. I hope so. I think we're trying to give them the adequate information and what they need to do to be successful.'"

The Washington Capitals have lost four straight games largely because of an ineffective power play that went 0-for-4 in a 4-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres and is 0-for-13 during the streak. The primary five-man unit remains Alex Ovechkin, John Carlson, Jakob Chychrun, Tom Wilson, and Dylan Strome despite the struggles. Only Wilson and Chychrun have scored power-play goals this season, while Ovechkin has zero and seven power-play shots. Head coach Spencer Carbery accepts responsibility, acknowledges thinning patience, but believes the veteran group can still correct course without personnel changes. The team has converted six of 40 power-play attempts (15%).

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