Vancouver Canucks 1-5 Washington Capitals
The Washingtons came to Vancouver on a lousy six-game losing streak, but the Capitals won two of their previous three games overall of the season.
One factor against the Capitals in games outside of Verizon Center was the opponent’s holding of the scorers. In the last four away games, Peter Laviolette’s wards have taken no lead.
This time, however, the captain of the team immediately got to work. Already in the sixth minute, Alexander Ovechkin took advantage of Quinn Hughes’ loss and passed an ankle kick from Spencer Martin who forced Thatcher Demko out of the Canucks’ goal.
The Killer Whales are in great shape overall: they’ve won three back-to-back matches in the away round and won five of their previous six fights in total, but this time they’ve been on the ice somehow sluggish and unscathed. Former Ovechkin mentor Bruce Boudreau’s team didn’t perform too badly, but they were a little late in everything, which sealed the game.
Also, of course, it was Ovechkin who, in the middle of the first stretch, set another important record by scoring his 13th goal of the season from his office in the left kick-off circle.
With his first goal in the match, Ovi caught up with another great, or rather Greatest, Wayne Gretzky on away goals and beat him by the second goal and is now the best away sniper, with 403 such goals. The history of the strongest league in the world.
But that’s not all. Alexander the Great led the score for the 135th time in regular season games, which is also a record, but still shares it with Jaromir Jagr. He is also second only to Gretzky in the number of matches in which he scored multiple goals. Ovechkin currently has 160, while Canadian has 189.
And while chasing Gretzky in all-time goals, keep in mind that the Russian still came close to second-place NHL sniper Gordie Howe from eight accurate ranges. Ovi now has 793 of them.
The Canucks retracted a goal in the first period thanks to a spectacular win over Nils Haeglander, but Washington soon reclaimed the lead and then strengthened it further in the second period.
Boudreau tried to save the game in the third quarter by replacing Martin with a sixth outfielder, seven minutes before the final siren, but after a few minutes of pressure, the Canucks were accepted by Martin Fehervara, who threw him to the ground.
Interestingly, with a few seconds into the goal, Ovechkin made the same shot, but missed the target by a few centimeters. The capital’s captain was about to score a hat-trick while Martin was at goal, but Alexander’s powerful shot was taken off the crossbar.
Another of the guests, Russian forward Evgeny Kuznetsov, spent 15:37 on the ice, but recorded a shot on the goal of his opponents and a block shot.
As for the Vancouver Russian legion, Vasily Podkolzin, no longer on the roster, was sent to the Abbosford Canucks farm club for game practice before the game, got on the ice right away and even scored at the end of the game. empty net.
Ilya Mikheev and Andrey Kuzmenko, who played with Elias Pettersson on the brightest streak of the Canadian team, this time can not put the meeting in their assets – both won -3. However, their Swedish partners managed to stay on the ice overall during all Caps’ goals and finished the game with -5.
Pittsburgh Penguins – Carolina Hurricanes – 2:3 OT
Evgeni Malkin failed to score against Carolina on the ice at 18:45, but finished the game with a +1 benefit score. Still, neither that, nor a goal and assist from Sidney Crosby, who opened the score in the match, helped the team.
The Hurricanes managed to balance the game and reverse the game, giving them the 14th goal of the season from Andrey Svechnikov, who rolled behind the net with the puck.
Jake Genzel saved Pittsburgh from rule defeat with less than a minute left in the game, but the Hurricanes ran two-zero in overtime and Svechnikov passed to defender Brett Pesce who took the win.
The Hurricanes’ Russian forward was eventually recognized as the third star of the match, and the team’s goalkeeper, Peter Kochetkov, saved 30 shots and made an important contribution to the win.
Boston Bruins 3-1 Tampa Bay Lightning
No matter how hard Tampa Bay tried to visit “hot” Boston, they couldn’t do anything with the Bruins.
Taylor Hall put the Bruins ahead in the second minute of the game, and they’re the only team in the league this season to always win if they score a goal. This victory was already the 13th.
He also finished 13th in a row at home meetings at the start of the season, and his home streak has already been 20 games for the Bears since last season. This is only the fifth series of its kind in the NHL’s centuries-old history.
Lightning bounced back at the end of the second period when Steven Stamkos scored his seventh powerplay goal of the season with an assist from Nikita Kucherov (only Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl scored more than eight). For the “Lightning” captain, this score was 999th.
In the third period, however, Hall smashed Andrei Vasilevski for the second time, who eventually made 23 saves, and Brad Marchand ended the shooting into the empty net. Between those goals, Corey Perry had a great chance to level the score again, but veteran Braden Point’s two-to-one pass was deflected by Jeremy Sveiman, who had time to act.
Other matches
Montreal Canadiens 0-4 San Jose Sharks
Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 New York Islanders
Nashville Predators – Anaheim Ducks – 2:1 Overtime
Winnipeg Jets 5-0 Colorado Avalanche
Calgary Flames 6-2 Florida Panthers
Los Angeles Kings – Seattle Craken – 8-9 Overtime
Source: Gazeta
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