The Washington Capitals have won their last three games and have also increased their chances of scoring. The boys took on the Canadiens last night with a score of 8-4.
The captain got us on board first last night on the power play and it was the first of many that night. Nice face-off win straight for the fast GR8 One ripper. 1-0 Capital.
Montreal got on the board where the puck narrowly squeaked past Thompson on a rebound shot, Brendan Gallagher put it past him to tie the game at 1 piece.
Early in the 2nd, during the remaining seconds of the Cap’s power play, the puck found Ethen Frank alone between the circles, who ripped a wrister past the Hab goalie to make it 2-1 Caps.
Franky wasn’t done yet a few minutes after his first goal. He got a beautiful transition lob pass on the backhand and did the rest with another weak side wrister to make it 3-1.
The Habs got back on the board where the Caps D were sucked too close to the net, allowing an easy point pass to a wide open one-timer that Lindgren couldn’t stop. 3-2 caps.
The Capitals answered back through Jakob Chychrun, who got a nice feed across the point where he was left wide open to attack the area where he ripped a clapper past the Hab goalkeeper. 4-2 caps.
The Habs quickly answered a poor Caps attempt to keep the puck in the Hab’s zone. Montreal then transferred the puck to a well-defended Caps team, but it wasn’t enough. Nick Suzuki scored the goal to beat Lindgren. 4-3 caps.
Then, with about 2 minutes left in the 2nd, the breakaway pass at center ice found Sonny Milano who used his speed to put the lone Hab’s D-man on his heels where he easily passed him and then past the Montreal goalie with a nice backhand forehand move. 5-3 caps.
Then early in the 3rd, the Habs got back on the board on another poor mop-up attempt. The puck found Mike Matheson’s stick, who ripped it past Lindgren. 5-4 caps.
After some back and forth, the Caps finally gave us some breathing room via who else Ovechkin who was left wide open in the right circle for an easy transition wrister. 6-4 caps.
Then, with 2 minutes to go and the Hab’s net empty, the king of the empty net gets his Hatty. This was Ovi’s 33rd hat-trick. This puts him 4th all-time where he passes Phil Esposito and Brett Hull.
Milano added another goal for fun to make the final 8-4.
Ovechkin scored his 907th goal and is now one of only three players in NHL history to snap a four-game scoring streak at age 40 or older. Jagr and Dean Prentice are the others.
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