Washington Capitals lost to Minnesota Wild in a regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL).
America’s St. The meeting, held at the Excel Energy Center stadium in the city of Paul, ended with a score of 5:3.
Brock Faber, Marcus Foligno, brace-setter Marcus Johansson and Yoel Eriksson Ek scored for the winners. Russian Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov did not score.
Anthony Mantha scored a brace and TJ Oshie scored for Washington. Russian Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov scored the goal.
Another Russian, captain of the capital Alexander Ovechkin, could not score any points. The striker missed three matches in January due to injury but returned to St. Louis on January 19. He played and made an assist in a regular season game with St. Louis. The Russian player played a total of 41 matches on the ice this season and recorded 8 goals and 20 assists. Ovechkin has 830 goals in his entire NHL career. He is 64 goals behind Wayne Gretzky, who holds the league record for most goals in NHL history.
Previously to Ovechkin guess way out of the crisis.