The Washington Capitals are two games into the second round, and head coach Barry Trotz is still waiting for his team to bring a complete effort.
The Capitals failed to take a 2-0 series advantage in Game 2 on Saturday, dropping a nail-biter 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins, leaving Trotz hungry for more.
"I don't think we've played our best game, yet," Trotz said, according to NHL.com's Tom Gulitti. "We've had periods where we've played pretty well. The third period, I thought we played pretty well. The same thing (in Game 1); I thought we were good in (the first period) and then in overtime. We haven't strung enough periods together. They're a good opponent. This seems to be a series where they'll own a period, we'll own a period, so the trick is to try to own more periods than they do.
"They're a good hockey team and I think we've got a good hockey team, but we can be better in a lot of areas right now."
Goaltender Braden Holtby agreed with his coach following Game 2, and feels the team still has more to give.
"We know we can be better," Holtby said. "It's been pretty tight both games, score-wise, but we know we have a lot more to offer and that's our goal, to get better as the series goes on. Game 3 will be a big one."
The Capitals will get their chance to prove they can be better in Game 3 on Monday.
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