Flyers Notes: Caps get back to simple hockey

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2008

Flyers Notes Coach  Bruce Boudreau  pulled out all the stops at yesterday's morning skate to keep the Capitals from falling behind by three games to one in their Eastern Conference playoff series against the Flyers. Boudreau changed his top two lines, moving  Sergei   Fedorov  between  Alexander Ovechkin  and  Viktor   Kozlov  while dropping center  Nick Backstrom  down a line, between  Brooks Laich  and  Alexander Semin .

He said the Capitals had been overhandling the puck. "The problem is we're trying to stickhandle over the blue line, rather than getting it deep and doing what we do," he said. "Sometimes, the stage being the playoffs, everything is scrutinized. "We've got so many guys that are in their first playoffs. They're thinking, 'I've got to make the good play,...