As part of the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Philadelphia Flyers hosted the Washington Capitals and won in the penalty shootout with a score of 4:3.
The home team opened the scoring at the start of the second period, but the away team came right back. The teams then scored against each other twice. Belarus Capitals forward Alexey Protas had two assists.
Washington’s Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin played the match again without scoring a goal. For the Russian, this match was the 11th consecutive goalless match.
Ovechkin, 38, has appeared on the ice in 26 games this season and recorded just 16 points – 5 goals and 11 assists. In total, the player scored 827 goals during his time in the NHL. The difference between Ovechkin, who holds the league record for the most goals scored in NHL history, and Gretzky is 67 goals.
The Washington Capitals are in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
Ovechkin before in the name The worst version of myself.