The Washington Capitals are facing a significant issue with too many men on the ice penalties, leading to 11 infractions this season. The problem was highlighted in a recent game against the Ottawa Senators, where they took two penalties almost back-to-back. Head Coach Spencer Carbery attributes the issue to both mental mistakes and risky line changes and emphasizes the need for the team to improve in this area. Despite successfully killing penalties, the frequency of these infractions is becoming a concern, prompting the need for tighter defensive coordination during changes.
Some of them are individual mental mistakes. Some are us just trying to push the envelope of a line change... we need to clean it up.
It's getting a bit out of hand. We can't be taking as many too many men penalties as we are.
We do a great job killing those off, and I thought it gave our guys a ton of juice early in that game.
This is where we need to tighten up. They have the puck, and they're coming at us, and our D... are trying to get off the ice.
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