{"id":436696,"date":"2026-01-29T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:59:13","slug":"extremely-disappointed-spencer-carbery-says-capitals-got-beat-in-every-area-by-the-kraken-its-not-a-good-feeling-what-went-on-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436696\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely disappointed Spencer Carbery says Capitals \u2018got beat in every area\u2019 by the Kraken: \u2018It\u2019s not a good feeling what went on tonight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals lost to the Seattle Kraken 5-1<\/a> on Tuesday, getting throttled in almost every way by the Western Conference\u2019s 10th-best team (by points percentage).<\/p>\n

The Kraken outshot the Capitals 32 to 20, out-attempted them at five-on-five 53 to 36, and scored on Logan Thompson<\/a> seven different times \u2014 though two of the goals were wiped off the board by officials.<\/p>\n

Capitals alternate captain Tom Wilson<\/a> called the game \u201ca big wake-up call\u201d for the team<\/a>. Head coach Spencer Carbery went a bit further than that.<\/p>\n

Carbery made the following comments after the game.<\/p>\n

Transcript<\/p>\n

Q. There seemed to be a drop off from the Edmonton game. What went wrong tonight?<\/p>\n

Spencer Carbery: Yeah, I think right from the start, I mean, I thought we got outplayed in the first period significantly. And so, I don\u2019t think a lot changed from there. I thought we were outplayed and just, yeah, extremely disappointed, extremely disappointed. I just thought we got beat in every area by that team tonight.<\/p>\n

Q. Tom said that this should be a wake-up call for the group. Do you feel like that wake-up call maybe should have come already?<\/p>\n

Spencer Carbery: Yeah, I mean. I understand what he\u2019s getting at, like a loss like tonight, with where we\u2019re at in the season and where things stand. But I feel like our guys have had a bunch of wake-up calls over the last couple of weeks at meetings and understand the significance of where we\u2019re at. And so when you get outplayed like we did, I just, yeah, it\u2019s not a good feeling what went on tonight.<\/p>\n

Q. In the first period, you at least had some looks and chances. They seemed to just completely dry up there in the middle period. What was lacking offensively?<\/p>\n

Spencer Carbery: Yeah, I would say this. Like, yeah, we do get three transition chances. The two-on-one Grubi (Philipp Grubauer<\/a>) makes a save on Stromer (Dylan Strome<\/a>). The one backdoor that goes through, back through, no doubt. Those are quality looks, but if you\u2019re evaluating who\u2019s carrying the play, who has the puck, what end is the puck in, it\u2019s not close. So that\u2019s where the transition chances are nice, and we don\u2019t capitalize, but we have to be able to go toe-to-toe with the team and control some play and have the puck and be in their end and register a few shots. And that\u2019s, yeah, that wasn\u2019t tonight.<\/p>\n

Q. This is almost two months now between being able to string together wins. Do you sense that?<\/p>\n

Spencer Carbery: Look, that\u2019s your guys\u2019 job to evaluate where our team\u2019s at and what it looks like on a night-to-night. I don\u2019t even bother with that. What I bother with is how I\u2019m going to help our group get better and perform at their absolute best, and our individual players. And develop those guys as best I possibly can every single day. So whether we\u2019re good enough to whatever you want to evaluate, I\u2019m not worried about that. I\u2019m worried about how we\u2019re going to win the next game, or how I can help our group put them in the best position possible to win the next game, and how can they improve tomorrow and the next day and the following day to be the best possible NHL players they can be.<\/p>\n

Q. What do you guys need to do more of to sustain more offense?<\/p>\n

Spencer Carbery: So much stuff that I could break down. I just think, yeah, they were so much faster in all three zones. I just felt like a quicker team than we were with and without the puck in all three zones. So you can start with the pace of play, our ability to move our feet and skate, and get in on the forecheck, and then reload and get it back, and then close in the defensive zone. So that was where I would start there, and then you can start to break down some of the X\u2019s and O\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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