Capitals yet to win two games in a row since first week of December: 'It's concerning'

""It's not an Xs and Os thing," Carbery said postgame. "It's the consistency of being able to repeat a certain way that is required for us to play to have success in this league. That's as simply put as I can put it. It's an ability to do it time and time and time again. "So, that's shifts, periods, games, break it down to whatever you want. It's our ability to be able to do that, and you can encompass that all in consistency, but game to game, period to period, just not able to sustain it and do it for long enough consistently.""

""Obviously, not able to make any ground up," Dylan Strome said. "We don't deserve to after that game. We played good in the third, but we put ourselves in a hole early. Yeah, not good enough.""

""After the first period, we give up 11 chances, and we get out at 0-0," Carbery said. "You dodge a bullet there, and you feel like, 'Okay, we got our feet under us, we get a mulligan, let's get to""

Washington has not won two games in a row since defeating San Jose on December 3, going 0-6-1 after wins since then. The Capitals lost 3-2 to the Sharks and now sit 24-18-6 with the 12th-best points percentage in the Eastern Conference, outside the playoff picture. Head coach Spencer Carbery and players said the team is running out of time to fix performance issues with 34 regular-season games remaining. The team repeatedly falls behind by multiple goals early, then rallies strongly in third periods but often cannot overcome deficits. Inconsistency across shifts, periods and games is identified as the primary problem.

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