Boston – Alex Ovechkin scored his 891. Career target, moved him four since the NHL record of the NHL Wayne Gretzky and Dylan tree On Tuesday evening broke the tie of the third period to lead Washington Capitals and 4-3 victories over Boston Bruins.
Ovechkin gave the capitals a 2-0 lead with about four minutes remaining in the first period and pushing the cross pass from the tree to the open net. In the last 18 games it has 12 goals and this season has eight games to catch Gretzky.
39 -year -old Russian, who also shot in the last minutes on an empty network, will continue his persecution on Wednesday evening against Carolina Hurricanes.
Ovechkin entered the season of 42 goals to break the record in the regular season, which has long looked incomprehensible. Now in his 20th NHL season he was on the market in February to get to 895 before breaking his left foot in a shaving collision in November. He missed 16 games, but continued to persecute in Toronto in the first Capitals game from the Christmas break.
At the beginning of this season, the captain of Washington became 60. A player who recorded 700 career assistance. He joined Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagrov, Marcela Dionne and Phil Esposito as the only players with 700 goals and 700 assists, one of several milestones in his career.
On Tuesday, he and his club stuffed their leadership in the ranking of the Eastern Conference, as Nothing dowd and Tom Wilson He also scored for Washington. Charlie Lindgren He made 21 savings to help the main places in the first place to capture three games for loss.
“I thought we had a decent first (period), and in the second we got away from us,” Tree said on the postgame show Capitals on a monumental sports network. “Obviously they took it to us. We got a 2-0 lead and maybe they thought it would be easy. But they’re a good team and we had to find a way to fight back in the third and get some timely goals.”
Ovechkin average a little less than two goals every three games. Gretzky would pass at the penultimate game of the season at this pace New York Islanders April 15.
David Pastrnak had two goals, The bed came scored one and Jeremy Swayman He stopped 27 shots for Boston, who lost the ninth in a row.
Bruins returned in the second and scored a goal from Lettiii for six minutes to the second and then a score of Pastrnak’s binding with three minutes remaining in the period. But the tree gave Washington a lead in the middle of the third, grabbing the reflection from the back wall and slipping around Swayman.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
