Washington – The Capitals packed the best place at the Eastern Conference in 5-4 shootouts above Carolina Hurricanes At the celebration of the new goals of the king Alex Ovechkin In Capital One Arena for the first time.
Ovechkin, who helped go to win on Thursday, was treated at a ceremony before playing to score his 895. New York Islanders. The arena introduced Ovechkin before showing the crowd a video of a historical goal and fans were able to encourage the main main legend at home for the first time.
Ovechkin and his family were then presented a series of gifts, including the engraved gold wand reminiscent and a six -meter sculptural painting puck with his image on him. The ceremony ended with a team photo before the Hurricanes players sorted to shake Ovechkin’s hand one by one.
In the game that followed, Pierre-Luc Dubois Scored the winner of the shootout after the capitals gathered from the deficit of 2-0, then with Carolina threw the lead 4-2 Jordan Martinook and Seth Jarvis Scoring in the third period to tie it. It came after Washington’s scoring in the second, with Dylan tree, Nothing dowd and Tom Wilson All giving targets Frederik Andersen.
Dubois also scored in regulation while Charlie Lindgren He did 31 savings and stayed in the game after an ugly collision for seven minutes on the second goal of Carolina.
Hurricanes, who are locked in second place in the metropolitan division and the first round of the match against New Jersey, managed to get to overtime, but lost fourth in a row. Logan Stankoven and Jackson Blake He also scored and Andersen allowed four targets on 28 shots in regulation.
Brandon Duhaime and Jalen Chatfield Last week he dropped his gloves to solve the team’s game. The capitals were unfortunate with the stop of the chatfield Connor McMichael at the end of their fight.
Associated Press contributed to this story.
