Power Lines - The Capitals' forward trio of Brett Connolly and Andre Burakovsky with Lars Eller has been hot for quite some time now, and both Connolly and Eller kept the heat on with goals against Carolina on Tuesday.
One or more members of that line have scored in each of the Capitals' last four games, all of which were Washington wins. The trio has now combined for 22 goals in the Caps' last 21 games which is as many as the Marcus Johansson-Evgeny Kuznetsov-Justin Williams line has produced over the same span, and only four fewer than the team's top trio of Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and T.J. Oshie has amassed over the same time span.
In 15 of its last 22 games, Washington has had members of at least three different lines chipping in with the scoring.
Finally, Tuesday's game was the 19th game this season in which the Caps deployed the same dozen forwards without anyone missing for reasons of injury or illness. With that group of 12 forwards in the lineup, the Caps have forged a 16-1-2 record this season and they've outscored the opposition by a combined total of 83-33 in those 19 contests.
Sweet Spot - Washington is at its best when it plays every other day, as it does for the final three games of this four-game homestand. The Caps are now 25-2-2 on exactly one day's rest this season, and they'll play 15 of their final 28 games on one day's rest.
Climbing The Ladder -Washington scored the only goal it would need on a power play in the first period when Alex Ovechkin pounded a shot through Carolina goalie Eddie Lack. The goal was Ovechkin's 205th career power-play marker, moving him one ahead of Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic for sole possession of 14th place on the NHL's all-time ledger.