The Washington Capitals' struggles in the second round have become the storyline almost every playoffs recently after the team manages to win the President's Trophy most of those years. With a roster stacked with top goal scorers, it would be strange to think that are on the brink of elimination tonight. Today's investigation compares how they played in both rounds using confidence intervals. Alex Ovechkin Intervals of both First Round-Second Round: 0.34 to -0.326 T.J. Oshie Intervals of both First Round-Second Round: 0.557 to -0.129 Justin Williams Intervals from First Round-Second Round: 0.519 to -0.167 Evgeny Kuznetsov Intervals from First Round-Second Round: 0.187 to -0.415 Interpreting the Numbers Above: For Ovechkin, he had a 0.34 chance of scoring in both rounds while he has -0.326 less chance of scoring in both rounds. Same goes for the others EXCEPT Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov actually did better in the second round than in the first even though his interval does not show it up there but his difference between the two rounds was -0.114, the only negative difference out of everyone. Obviously there is work needed to be done but since the intervals pass through 0, it means that at one point the Capitals players could have had the same ability in the first and second round, therefore debunking the idea that they are not playing to their ability right now. Their performance may not be the best right now but their ability is still the same and they can still score. Schedules and scores are posted in the Hockey section while past playoff stats can be found in the Sports Staturday category!
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