Four goals from Gretzky’s record: Ovechkin brought victory to Washington, Kaprizov fought Two points from Ovechkin brought Washington victory over Seattle 10/12/2022, 11:58

Washington Capitals 4-1 Seattle Crack

The current season cannot be called extraordinary for Washington. “Capital” started the regular season very wrinkled, strewn with heavy wins and losses, and while team leader Alexander Ovechkin continues to chase Wayne Gretzky’s eternal sniper record, so far he hasn’t hit the pace fans have come to expect from him. It’s too early to talk about that now, but for Caps, the victory over Seattle is valuable in many ways. After all, Washington has extended its winning streak to three games for the first time this season.

Ovechkin has scored four points in the last two games: he scored a double against Philadelphia two days earlier and scored one goal and one assist in his match against Krakens.

Although Capitals entered the game hard and accepted first, Adam Larsson opened the score in the 18th minute. Already in the second period, the hosts returned – Anthony Manta scored, and one of the assistants was Russian Alexander Alekseev. That’s notable in itself, as Alekseev, who played just one game for Washington last season and was unable to score at the time, is on the ice for the fifth time this season and earns the first point of his NHL career. However, his joy was marred by an injury: After Jamie Oleksiak’s harsh reception, the Russian player was unable to continue the game. Probably Oleksiak’s match penalty for this episode was a bad consolation for him.

The following continued to replenish the account and Ovechkin. Eight minutes later, he scored Marcus Johansson’s goal. And at the end of the meeting, Caps hit the empty net of his opponents twice – first Lars Eller did, and then Ovechkin also scored.

And now – dry but interesting and important statistics.

Above all, thanks to his goal against Seattle, Alexander came close to Wayne Gretzky’s record. Of course, not a sniper – we are talking about targets to an empty net.

Canadian has had 56 of these in his career, while Ovechkin currently has 52.

“Actually, we were surprised that Ovechkin only scored 52 goals in empty nets. I thought there must be more. But on the other hand, snipers score differently. The important thing is to be in the right place at the right time. I am very happy for him, ”said Ovechkin’s quoted partner, Eller. official site NHL.

As for the sniper race, now Alexander is just five goals behind Gordie Howe, who is second on the list of the best snipers in league history – the legendary hockey player scored 801 goals in his career, while Ovechkin left 796.

And the backlog of Gretzky, the leader of this list with 894 goals, is currently 98 goals.

By the way, after the previous match between Washington and Philadelphia, American journalist Ian Oland published an interesting arithmetic calculation. According to his calculations, if Ovechkin continues to score at his current pace (16 goals in 29 games, including Seattle – “socialbites.ca” game)), then he will score 44 goals at the end of the season. And while this is the second-worst NHL career record since the 2016/17 season (33 goals), he could still finish the season with 824 goals, not counting the league close and the coronavirus pandemic.

Gretzky has 70 goals left – given that under his contract with Washington, Ovechkin will play for another three years for the Capitals, he will need to score an average of 23.3 goals per season, which is more than realistic.

Turning to the current successes of the Russians, we also note that the goal against Seattle is an anniversary for him – 500th in equal compositions. According to this indicator, he is also among the leaders among all players in the league. Only Jaromir Jagr (538), Gordie Howe (566) and Wayne Gretzky (617) have scored more goals on the ice with the same number of hockey players.

Colorado Avalanche – New York Rangers – 1:2 B

The game in Denver, where local “avalanches” took the “guards” from New York, was extremely difficult for both teams. Just before the middle of the second quarter, while the opponents were replacing the abandoned checkers, Russian Artemy Panarin assisted goal scorer Braden Schneider in the guest squad. These two goals were the only goals scored in regular time.

The winner had to be determined in a shootout, where Panarin became the hero, making what turned out to be decisive for his team.

“My bullet that came true? Do you watch YouTube? Last time I scored Georgiev with an uncomfortable hand, and today I decided that he would think that I would not do it again, ”Panarin humorously answered a journalist’s question after the match about the winning goal.

At the same time, it is impossible not to note the contribution of the Russian goalkeepers of both teams – it is no coincidence that both Rangers’ Igor Shesterkin and Avalanche’s Alexander Georgiev entered the top three stars of the match, placing second and second. third stars, respectively.

Shesterkin saved 41 shots, and his counterpart – 28.

Edmonton Oilers 5-2 Minnesota Wild

The Edmonton trip was unsuccessful for the “savages”, but for now they resisted the hosts and managed to make up for it after two missed goals, and the Russian striker of the “Minnesota” Kirill Kaprizov made an assist. But the final score disappointed the guests.

However, Kaprizov’s personal statistics improved after the results of this match. Thanks to one assist, he extended his personal best streak to 14 games and recorded 34 points (17 + 17) in 25 games in total. As journalist Adam Kimelman points out, it’s Kaprizov’s game that keeps the team afloat and achieves results.

“Minnesota looks more and more like a team that finished second in the Intermediate League last season, and one of the main reasons is striker Kirill Kaprizov, who looks like a living superstar again.”

Kimelman said. He also added that Kaprizov’s scoring streak is a record in the club’s history.

At the same time, Kirill got involved in a fight started by teammate goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury and Edmonton player Leon Draisaitl. The Rus stood up for their goalkeeper and Draisaitl tried to protect Oilers leader Conor McDavid. But the judges quickly extinguished the passions.

Buffalo Sabers – Pittsburgh Penguins – 3:4 Overtime

Pittsburgh beat Buffalo away with no difficulty and extended their winning streak to four consecutive games. Russian Evgeni Malkin made a significant contribution to the success of the visiting team with two assists. Including, he assisted in the episode with Jeff Carter’s winning goal in overtime. Malkin currently has 27 (8+19) points in 27 games.

New Jersey Devils 4-6 New York Islanders

Besides the fact that this match was the most productive on the match day, the Russian defender of the “islanders”, Alexander Romanov, is notable for his performance. Above all, he had two assists and helped his team to victory.

At the same time, in the middle of the second period, Romanov was suspended for five minutes for instigating a fight.

With a tough dominance against Miles Wood, Michael Macleod immediately defended his partner and the opponents dealt hand-to-hand. MacLeod was also sent to the penalty area for five minutes.

On the next game day of the NHL regular season, Washington defeated Seattle by a score of 4:1. Capital’s leader, Alexander Ovechkin, scored a goal and assisted to close the gap with second-place NHL striker Gordie Howe by five goals, approaching Wayne Gretzky’s empty net goals record. About the successes of Ovechkin and other Russian players in the NHL – in the review “socialbites.ca”.



Source: Gazeta

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