Capitals Shake Up Special Teams as Carbery Demands Improvement: 'It’s About Building Momentum, Not Losing It' trucc
ARLINGTON, V.A. — There's no sugar coating it for the Washington Capitals, and Spencer Carbery didn't mince words: special teams has not been a highlight to start the season.
Through the first 10 games of the season, the Capitals are just 6-for-32 on the power play (18.8 percent). They struggle to enter the zone and get set up, and maintaining possession has also been a problem.
It's gotten to the point where coach Spencer Carbery continues to make changes, and acknowledged that the man advantage opportunities have actually come to work against D.C. so far.
"The power has not been nearly good enough... you just need some momentum on those power plays, and it kills momentum," Carbery said bluntly.
Those struggles are also bleeding over onto the penalty kill. Washington's PK has ranked atop the league over the last few seasons, but right now, it ranks sixth-worst in the league at 67.9 percent and has given up nine goals through 10 games.
"I feel like it's been a little bit unlucky, but when you look at some of the underlying numbers, we've kind of got what we deserved in how many Grade-A opportunities that were given up," Carbery said.
That being the case, the Capitals worked on special teams quite a bit on Thursday, trying out some new looks up front.
Aliaksei Protas was promoted to the top unit, and operated there with John Carlson, Alex Ovechkin, Connor McMichael and Dylan Strome, who upgraded to contact for power-play work as he recovers from a lower-body injury. On the second unit, Hendrix Lapierre joined the mix of Jakob Chychrun, Ryan Leonard, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Tom Wilson, who swapped places with Protas.
The tweaks give the Capitals the chance to evenly deploy two separate units and generate some new looks with different personnel.
"We're just looking at some deployment stuff and how we can potentially utilize two units, potentially use 10 or nine guys equally and potentially use a second unit. We're looking at a bunch of different options," Carbery explained. "You're not asking to score every time you go on the power play, but you want to spend some time in the o-zone. You want to threaten the goaltender with a couple of shots in traffic, some puck recovery, some won face-offs, all of those things."
On the kill, the same players are being relied upon to step up, with Nic Dowd and Brandon Duhaime leading the charge. However, Carbery stressed urgency and a turnaround when it comes to the kill's performance — and quick.
"We've got to tighten up there. We've talked about it, looked at some different things, talked to some personnel, had a few meetings," Carbery said. "We'll continue to dial that in and make sure that we're continuing to progress on the kill and also the power play."
Dr. Heavenly Kimes Throws a Drink at Kari Wells + Kari Throws One Right Back liennhi
Dr. Heavenly Kimes and Kari Wells’ heated moment was edited out.
“Married to Medicine” star Dr. Heavenly Kimes is no stranger to controversial moments and nasty feuds. In fact, during the current season, she’s been clashing with Dr. Contessa Metcalfe. Heavenly started a YouTube channel a few years ago. And she’s decided to use the platform to review the episodes. Plus, she’ll oftentimes give business and relationship advice to her subscribers as well. However, some of her costars haven’t appreciated the comments she’s made about them and their marriages. In fact, Contessa was furious when Heavenly told fans that she felt that Dr. Scott Metcalfe is verbally and emotionally abusive. Contessa just believes a friend shouldn’t say this about another friend’s husband.
One of the most intense moments of the season was the intervention Contessa planned for Heavenly. At the event, Contessa made sure a montage of Heavenly’s shady YouTube comments was played. Heavenly laughed. And she said she doesn’t regret the comments she’s made on her channel. Heavenly eventually apologized to Contessa but Contessa’s tense moment with Dr. Damon Kimes only stalled the progress they were making on reviving the friendship.
Well, it seems as if another heated moment for Heavenly was edited out. A scene of Heavenly throwing a drink at Kari Wells had fans talking on social media.
Kari Wells and Dr. Heavenly Kimes haven’t always gotten along.
Dr. Heavenly Kimes has an interesting relationship with Kari Wells. In fact, the “Married to Medicine” stars have clashed a lot over the years. However, they appeared to get in a cordial space somewhat last season. However, Heavenly didn’t like it when Kari called Dr. Damon Kimes “Daddy.” Of course, Heavenly has been calling Damon that for years. And she doesn’t want another woman to do the same. Regardless, fans are wondering what could have led to the blowup they had while filming the current season.
On the recent episode, Dr. Jackie Walters and Dr. Simone Whitmore got with their husbands to plan a cast trip to Blue Ridge Mountains. Both women figured that a trip needed to happen because there has been a lot of tension and drama in the group. And it’s gotten really bad considering Toya Bush-Harris and Audra Frimpong even had an altercation at Quad Webb’s holiday party.
During the scene, producers decided to do a flashback of previous messy moments between the cast that occurred during the season. But one scene they showed featured Heavenly tossing a drink at Kari. The scene itself was never shown until the flashback sequence. And context is missing.
Drinks were thrown.
In the clip, Heavenly tells Kari, “Get out of my face with that!” She then threw the drink in Kari’s face. Kari responded, “What the **** is wrong with you?!” Kari then drew her drink at Heavenly.
Interestingly enough, Heavenly had no regrets. And she told Kari, “That’s what it is!”
Fans have a lot of questions about the scene on social media. Some are wondering what led to the blowup. This is true especially since Kari and Heavenly are on good terms now. And Kari even appeared on Heavenly’s YouTube channel to discuss a
