Washington lost to Seattle at home in a National Hockey League (NHL) regular season match.
The meeting ended with a score of 1:4.
The winners included Ty Cartier, Alexander Wennberg, Justin Schultz and Adam Larsson with accurate shots. Max Pacioretty scored for Washington with assists from Alexander Ovechkin and Trevor van Riemsdyk.
Ovechkin failed to score for the fourth consecutive game. He made his last accurate shot in the match against Pittsburgh on January 3 (4:3).
Ovechkin missed several Washington practices. In the match against the Los Angeles Kings on January 7, the Russian player made an assist. For the forward, this was his sixth goal-scoring action in his last five consecutive NHL games. The Russian player played a total of 39 matches on the ice this season and recorded 8 goals and 19 assists.
Ovechkin has a total of 830 goals in his entire NHL career. He is behind Wayne Gretzky, who holds the league record for most goals in NHL history with 64 goals.
Ovechkin before elongated Series up to six games.