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NHL Power-Play Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by power-play goals, regular season only, listing players with at least one. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table.
Power-play goals are scored while the team has more skaters on the ice than the opponent. The leaders are the trigger men of first power-play units: the one-timer from the left circle, the net-front tip. PPG feeds both goals and power-play points. A shooter who loses PP1 time usually falls off this board within a few weeks.
Leader for the Washington Capitals in 2017-18: Alex Ovechkin (WSH), 17 PPG.
- Completed seasons use the NHL's official power-play and shorthanded totals.
Power-Play Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | PPG | GP | Per game | PPA | PPP | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 17 | 82 | 0.21 | 14 | 31 | 49 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 2 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 9 | 74 | 0.12 | 9 | 18 | 18 | — |
| 3 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 7 | 81 | 0.09 | 19 | 26 | 21 | — |
| 4 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 7 | 79 | 0.09 | 23 | 30 | 27 | — |
| 5 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 28 | 32 | 15 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 6 | Brett ConnollyFWSH | WSH | 4 | 70 | 0.06 | 1 | 5 | 15 | — |
| 7 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Andre BurakovskyFWSH | WSH | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 9 | Jakub VranaFWSH | WSH | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 2 | 3 | 13 | — |
| 10 | Alex ChiassonFWSH | WSH | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 0 | 1 | 9 | — |
How to read it
Goals scored with the man advantage (5-on-4, 5-on-3, 4-on-3).
How reliable is it?
Power-play scoring follows power-play time: the share of a team's PP minutes is far more repeatable than the goal total itself.
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