The Washington Capitals' even-strength play has been good enough to win games, but the special teams play has been poor.

The Metropolitan Division club, just treading water to start the season, will have to be better on the power-play and penalty-kill units when it plays at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.

Winners of half of their 14 games and earning points in eight, the Capitals were victimized by the same culprit in Thursday night's 5-3 loss at the rival Pittsburgh Penguins.

The scoresheet read that Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby did the damage, but it was how he scored his two goals that sank the Capitals.

"It's kind of the story of our season so far," Washington forward Dylan Strome said after seeing Crosby net twice on the man advantage. "We've been great at 5-on-5 for the

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