Washington Capitals lost to Montreal Canadiens in a regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The match, which took place at the Capital One Arena in Washington, ended with the score of 5:2 for the Canadians. This defeat was the capital team’s fifth consecutive defeat; before that Caps, St. St. Louis had lost back-to-back games to Minnesota, Colorado and Dallas, all of which were on the road.
After 48 games, the Capitals have 51 points and sit outside the playoff zone.
Rasmus Sandin and Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin scored for Washington. He scored in the 27th minute of the match, with assists from Dylan Strome and Martin Fehervari.
This season, Ovechkin played in a total of 45 games in the regular season of the National Hockey League and recorded 10 goals and 22 assists in these games. He missed several games in January due to injury.
Ovechkin continues to pursue Wayne Gretzky’s sniping record. Now the Russian has 832 goals. The legendary Canadian scored 894 goals in his NHL career; Ovechkin is now 62 goals behind him.
It was previously reported that Alexander Ovechkin. wandered around NHL legend in terms of number of games played.