In the next game of the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season, the Washington Capitals came out stronger than the New York Islanders.
The match, which took place at the UBS Arena in New York with the participation of 16,519 spectators, resulted in the capital’s victory with a score of 4:1, with a double goal from Caps captain Alexander Ovechkin.
After this match, the 38-year-old Russian has 826 goals in the NHL regular championship; According to this indicator, the captain of the Russian team ranks second after Canadian Wayne Gretzky, who scored 894 goals. Ovechkin has 68 goals left to reach his record.
Ovechkin opened the scoring of the match with the goal he scored in the 10th minute of the first period, with an assist from Evgeny Kuznetsov, another Russian striker of the capital. Ovechkin also scored five seconds before the final siren. The striker broke the goalless streak that lasted for six matches. Before facing the Islanders, Ovechkin had two goals and seven assists in 12 games of the season.
Previously Alexander Ovechkin approached Wayne Gretzky’s record for most doubles in the NHL.