Senators' power play continues to let them down

The Ottawa Senators continue to fire blanks on the power play.

The club dropped a 2-1 decision to the Washington Capitals on Sunday, and have only themselves to blame. Down by a goal in the third period, the Sens were gifted a golden opportunity to tie things up when Washington's Brooks Orpik and Evgeny Kuznetsov were both assessed minor penalties at the 8:10 mark.

Up two men for a full two minutes, Ottawa's 5-on-3 resulted in only one shot on goal.

"It was frustrating," Kyle Turris said, according to the Ottawa Citizen's Bruce Garrioch. "We've got to score on the 5-on-3. We worked on (it) in practice. It's just not coming together and it's something we've got to keep working on."

The Sens have lost three in a row and have six full days off to lament their power-play struggles before hosting Washington on Saturday.

"There's a lot of things not working," Erik Karlsson added about the two-man advantage. "We're going to have to work on it. It's one of those things it's not going well enough for us. We've got to find a way to generate more."

Karlsson's got a goal and 11 assists when his team's up a man. He finished with one goal and 25 assists on the power play last season, when he had a career-high 82 points.

Ottawa heads into its league-mandated break with the NHL's 22nd-ranked power play, producing at 16 percent.