The Washington Capitals were listless through the first two periods against the Buffalo Sabres, one of the NHL’s worst teams.
But like he has done many, many times before, Alex Ovechkin came to the rescue with one of the most amazing goals you’ll ever see.
Ovi’s 48th goal ended Linus Ullmark’s shutout bid and allowed him to keep pace with David Pastrnak who scored Saturday against the Lightning.
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After a rare faceoff win by Evgeny Kuznetsov, Ovechkin skated laterally off the left wing, put the puck through the skates of Kyle Okposo and ripped an unstoppable wrist shot past Ullmark for the goal.
Craig Laughlin called it a “jockstrapper.”
How did he do this?
watch yer ankles kyle pic.twitter.com/7c2CWxcCh2
— NBC Sports Capitals (@NBCSCapitals) March 10, 2020
Seriously.
h o w pic.twitter.com/sxM09HGtU6
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) March 10, 2020
The goal marked Ovechkin’s 706th of his career.
Ovechkin is now three goals shy of passing Mike Gartner (708) for the seventh most goals in NHL history.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 10, 2020
Here’s what else he accomplished statistically with the marker.
Ovechkin has scored 359 career regular-season goals on the road (359 goals in 576 games), trailing only Wayne Gretzky (402) and Steve Yzerman (362).
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 10, 2020
Ovechkin has scored 50.8 percent of his career regular-season goals on the road (359 of 706). That’s the highest such percentage among the NHL’s eight members of the 700-goal club, three percentage points more than the next-closest player (Brett Hull: 47.6 percent).
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 10, 2020
Ovechkin also assisted on Dmitry Orlov’s game-tying goal after some amazing work in front of the net to tie the game at 2.
o rly orly? pic.twitter.com/CGsNqGLM9k
— NBC Sports Capitals (@NBCSCapitals) March 10, 2020
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