National Hockey League (NHL) Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin, following the results of the match against the New York Islanders in the regular season, said that he was satisfied with the performance of his team’s young hockey players.
“Today we saw many of our young players from the reserves. This is very important because we were able to see our future. Situations are different and if someone up top can’t get on the ice there’s always help needed,” Ovechkin said in his post-game press conference.
The match ended with Caps winning 4:1. 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.
Earlier, Alexander Ovechkin was at the game with the Islanders updated your own record