expressed frustration<\/a> with what he sees as inconsistent rulings on coach\u2019s challenges in the past, but he also acknowledged the Capitals need to be able to pick their battles with more accuracy. He made a point to differentiate Friday\u2019s offside challenge from the team\u2019s prior three goaltender interference challenges, which he saw as two separate issues.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t group this with the goalie interference ones,\u201d he said. \u201cThis one\u2019s different. This one is offside. It\u2019s either offside or it\u2019s not. There\u2019s no gray to it. And we had it as offside. So I don\u2019t know that we would do anything differently because of the offside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even so, Carbery knows there\u2019s room for improvement, especially on the team\u2019s goaltender interference challenges, which went one-for-two last season and currently stand at zero-for-two this fall. Those calls have been a frequent topic of conversation among the team\u2019s coaching staff, which has monitored how officials have ruled around the NHL, but so far that work has yet to pay off.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goalie challenges we\u2019ve talked a lot about our process and how that can get better and how we can improve as a staff of getting those correct,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked if the team would have to change its strategy on challenges moving forward, Carbery responded, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s a fair point. I don\u2019t know what to tell you. I think we\u2019ve had some really difficult challenges that, if you go back and you go through the film, we look at every challenge every night from the previous night (around the league), you look at the four last night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re difficult, so I think ours were hard. And in some of the circumstances, a little bit (of the decision to challenge) was where we were in the game, etc. But certainly we have to reevaluate our process and make sure that we\u2019re making the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 The Washington Capitals\u2019 video team has been snakebitten to start the 2025-26 season, with head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-264379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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