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Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin skates amid a drill at the group's preparation camp on Friday in Arlington, Va. In the first place year Capitals mentor Barry Trotz needs Ovechkin to turn into a more finish player and the initial phase, in the seat manager's eyes, is to recover the Russian objective scorer on the left wing. (Scratch Wass/Associated Press)
Alex Ovechkin moved again to left wing by new mentor Barry Trotz

As though he knew the inquiry was impending, Alex Ovechkin grinned when asked what his new mentor needs him to take a shot at.

"On backcheck?" Ovechkin said from Arlington, Va.

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"On the off chance that you need to be great," he said, "you need to chip away at everything."

Step No. 1, as Trotz had shown at one time, is moving Ovechkin once more to left wing, turning around a seismic movement under past mentor Adam Oates. Ovechkin headed the NHL with 51 objectives keep going season playing generally on the right, however his in addition to short was less 35, and the Capitals missed the playoffs shockingly since 2007.

"He's better on the right side a tiny bit protectively, yet his ability is on the left side," Trotz said. "Along these lines in case I'm going to boost his ability, I have to get him on the left side. Presently on the off chance that he would like to alter protectively playing the left side, then we'll discuss possibly moving him over to the right.

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He is Washington's fifth mentor since Ovechkin entered the group in 2005, yet he's the first to have head instructing background in the NHL. Those 15 seasons with the Nashville Predators provide for him that additional bit of power.

"It's really apparent he has a ton of experience," goaltender Braden Holtby said. "You can simply tell the correspondence is clear with what they expect out of us."

Trotz created an impression immediately, putting the players through a requesting arrangement of molding penetrates that had everybody gassed.

"That was one of the harder, if not the hardest, Day 1 I've had," said 12-year veteran defenceman Brooks Orpik.

Trotz said the line pairings for the initial three preseason amusements may show up sort of irregular on the grounds that he needs to create a "Capitals society" that has everybody on the same page. He's likewise made an initiative gathering of about six or thereabouts players to keep a nearby beat on the locker room. He has said he felt, viewing from a far distance with the Nashville Predators, that Washington was a spot where "the prisoners were running the refuge," and he's trying to change