The San Jose Sharks are normally a boogeyman team for the Washington Capitals, especially when the two teams play in our nation’s capital. Monday night, instead of turtling, the Capitals knifed up the Sharks, defeating them 4-1.
The Capitals outshot the Sharks 29 to 25, but were out-attempted at five-on-five 46 to 40.
Ovechkin recorded his second game-winning goal of the season against the Sharks, passing Mats Sundin for 11th place on the all-time list.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) December 5, 2017
With 20 goals in 27-plus games, Alex Ovechkin is currently on the second-best GPG pace of his career (2007-08).
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) December 5, 2017
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, Hockeystats.ca, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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