On the night of April 2-3, Buffalo Sabers hosted the Washington Capitals on their home ice and won a crushing victory with a score of 6:2.
The guest team opened the scoring in the third minute of the match. Martin Fehervari scored the goal. Then, within a minute, the home team hit Washington’s goal twice. Zemgus Girgensons and John-Jason Peterka scored. After the break, the German striker scored a double goal. Late in the second period, Dylan Strome got a goal back from Alexander Ovechkin’s pass.
In the final period of the game, Buffalo hit its opponent’s goal three times in three minutes (Rasmus Dahlin, Tage Thompson and Alex Tuck).
Currently, Washington remains in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings, which gives them the opportunity to play in the playoffs. Detroit, in ninth place, also has the same number of points (82 points each).
Ovechkin, who played in a total of 71 regular season matches this season, scored 26 goals and made 33 assists.
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