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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored 2 of his 3 goals implicit 56 seconds successful the 2nd play and the Washington Capitals bushed the Florida Panthers 4-3 connected Friday.
Ovechkin has 18 goals, astir done 21 games successful a play by a subordinate successful astatine slightest his 17th season. He’s 19 goals from passing Jaromir Jagr for 3rd connected the vocation database pursuing his 28th chapeau trick.
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Ovechkin was deed successful the look by a puck deflected by Florida’s Radko Gudas successful the game’s archetypal 5 minutes, but aft a speedy sojourn to the locker country for a fewer sutures, helium returned for his adjacent displacement 3 minutes later.
“It benignant of was a wakeup call,” Ovechkin said. “Thank God, I didn’t suffer immoderate teeth. It was not that major.”
Ovechkin passed Guy Lafleur and Brendan Shanahan for 26th spot connected the vocation points list. In Wednesday’s triumph against Montreal, helium had 3 assists.
“If I had a accidental to sprout it, I shoot,” Ovechkin said. “If I person a accidental to pass, I pass. Simple game, you know?”
It was Ovechkin’s 153rd multigoal game. His adjacent 1 volition necktie him with Mario Lemieux for 3rd spot successful the vocation list.
Capitals manager Peter Laviolette marvels astatine the 36-year-old Ovechkin
“He’s a beauteous motivated guy,” Laviolette said. “I don’t cognize if it’s 1 happening that helium looks astatine and that’s what gets him going. He comes to the rink, helium wants to play and helium wants to beryllium a contributor.”
Washington has won 8 of 10 and ended Florida’s four-game winning streak. Ilya Samsonov stopped 19 shots for the Capitals.
Sergei Bobrovsky allowed Tom Wilson’s eighth goal, which tied it astatine 1 astatine 1:34 of the second, and Ovechkin’s archetypal goal. Bobrovsky near aft Ovechkin’s extremity astatine 2:50 but returned aft Ovechkin scored against Spencer Knight astatine 3:46.
Ovechkin’s 3rd extremity came astatine 4:02 successful the 3rd period.
Evgeny Kuznetsov had 3 assists for Washington, 2 of them connected Ovechkin’s goals.
“It conscionable gets mean for us, you know?” Kuznetsov said.
The Panthers’ Sam Reinhart scored his 4th extremity astatine 6:49 of the second, and Bobrovsky near again, and returned with 2:42 to play successful the second.
Bobrovsky stopped 19 of 22 shots and Knight made six saves successful 7 chances.
Panther’s interim manager Andrew Brunette said that Bobrovsky near owed to concussion protocol, but determination was disorder astir the timing and procedures.
“We were told helium wasn’t evaluated oregon helium wasn’t past the protocol,” Brunette said. “Kind of got truly grey determination for a while. I’m not definite what happened.”
Jonathan Huberdeau’s seventh extremity gave the Panthers a 1-0 pb with 32 seconds to play successful the first.
Carter Verhaeghe scored astatine 5:36 of the 3rd to chopped Washington’s pb to 4-3.
NOTES:
Panthers: F Anthony Duclair was a precocious scratch with a lower-body injury. … F Alexsander Barkov missed his 4th consecutive crippled with a lower-body injury. … Huberdeau has 4 goals successful six games and scored successful six consecutive games.
Capitals: D Justin Schultz was retired aft injuring his precocious assemblage successful Wednesday’s crippled against Montreal. He was replaced by Dennis Cholowski, who played successful his 2nd crippled this season. … F T.J. Oshie (lower body) is connected injured reserve for the 2nd clip this season. … F Conor Sheary (upper body) missed his 3rd consecutive game. … F Lars Eller, who hasn’t played since November 14, is retired of COVID-19 protocols but not acceptable to play.
UP NEXT
Panthers: Host Seattle Kraken connected Saturday.
Capitals: Visit the Carolina Hurricanes connected Sunday.
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