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“These are the big moments when power plays have the same mindset and clear understanding of what they’re doing. I don’t think the moment takes away any effectiveness of the power play and that’s what you’ve got to build towards. There are lots of players that have really good skill sets. We’ve got to fill that skill set into a package that has the same mindset, same attack mode and, in key moments, we do our thing.”

Capuano will use a similar penalty-kill to what he had in Florida the last three seasons.

“The approach for me has always been to try to play on your toes as much as possible and to be in attack mode,” Capuano said. “Everything runs through the goaltender’s eyes and the way that we’re going to kill and the structure that we’re going to kill and the foundation we’re going to set, I’m pretty confident the goalie will have a pretty clear cut image of where the shots are going to come from.

“If everybody is on the same page, and especially with the goalies, not only will our penalty-kill get better, maybe our goalie’s save-percentage will get better. There are a lot of intangibles that go along as far as the sacrifice, blocking shots and faceoffs, so it’s going to be a bit of a change structurally, but we seemed to grasp that in Florida and, hopefully, that can transpire here.”

This staff wasn’t here before — with the exception of Groulx — but one area that has to improve is in-game adjustments. Under Boucher, the Senators were accused of doing the same thing over and over again. Interim coach Marc Crawford tried to change the approach, however, he was behind the bench 18 games.

That’s where the Senators will rely on Jones to convey that message to the staff on the bench when he’s on the headset with Payne.

“When you have a guy with (Jones) knowledge up top that can see an adjustment that needs to be made and he radio’s down, D.J. is willing to change whatever works,” Capuano said.