National Hockey League (NHL) Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin said in an interview with the club’s press service that it is possible to avoid a series of defeats if you spend the remaining matches in the regular season. Similarity to the second period of the game against the Montreal Canadiens.
“We made a lot of mistakes in the first period. Maybe a week’s break affected us a lot, but everyone saw how we spent the second twenty minutes, we had a lot of chances. If we play as we did in the second period, we will be successful,” Ovechkin said.
The match, which took place at the Capital One Arena in Washington, ended with the score of 5:2 for the Canadians.
The winning team scored two goals from Nick Suzuki, Michael Pezzetta and Juraj Slafkovski, who scored a double in the match.
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.
Previously Alexander Ovechkin corrected Benefit statistics of the match against Montreal.