Alex Ovechkin broke some news in his postgame interview with NBC Sports Washington’s Al Koken.
“One more game before the All-Star Break, are we going to see you in the lineup?” Koken asked.
“Yeah,” Ovechkin said. “See ya!”
Early in the first period, Alex Ovechkin absorbed a painful high stick to his mouth from Miles Wood. The Devils forward would later apologize, but the errant stick sent a bloodied Ovechkin to the locker room.
“Obviously, I was a little mad,” Ovechkin said after the game. “It get me going.”
When the Russian machine returned (because he never breaks), he was determined to make the Devils pay. And pay they did.
Ovechkin tallied his 29th and 30th goals in the first period – two revenge goals. And in the third, he scored his 25th career hat trick – the most among all active players – to lead the Capitals to a 5-2 win.
Alex Ovechkin scored his 25th career hat trick in the third period of the Capitals’ 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils.
Capitals fans threw a bunch of hats on the ice. One especially ridiculous one landed on the ice and John Carlson requested it from the referee. He then put it on Braden Holtby’s head.
TJ Oshie and Nicklas Backstrom have a superstition where they slide and hop into each other on the bench to start a new period of hockey.
It’s a wonderfully dumb superstition and two new Capitals players joined in on the fun Thursday against the Devils: Brendan Leipsic and Radko Gudas.
TSN’s pregame show ahead of the Montreal Canadiens game had some, uh, extra bite to it.
A bulldog randomly wandered onto the stage as hosts Tessa Bonhomme and analyst Pierre LeBrun previewed the Habs’ tilt against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Miles Wood’s favorite player growing up was Alex Ovechkin. He even got an autograph from Ovechkin after a game in December 2016 as a rookie. Thursday, Wood nearly altered his idol’s face forever.
5:59 into the first period, Wood skated by Ovechkin for a shift change. As the Devils forward skated by Ovechkin, he high-sticked him directly in the face.
Teemu Selanne knows a thing or two about scoring goals. The Finnish Flash scored the most goals as a rookie in NHL history (76) and led the league in goal scoring three different times (76, 1992-93; 52, 1997-98; and 47, 1998-99).
So when Alex Ovechkin overtook the 1997 Stanley Cup champion for 11th on the all-time goal-scoring list, Selanne was both impressed and congratulatory. He also had some advice.
Here’s your amazing hockey stat of the day via NBC Sports.
Alex Ovechkin led the NHL in game-winning goals during the 2010s. And his lead over the next closest players is staggering.
World Series champion Ryan Zimmerman traded in his bat for a blocker pad and took shots from the Washington Capitals after practice Wednesday.
We didn’t understand why Zimmerman randomly showed up to MedStar Capitals Iceplex and played goalie until now. It was to fulfill a bet with Nicklas Backstrom.
Was this amazing TikTok the Washington Capitals made featuring Nicklas Backstrom’s morphing, time-lapsed face set to the Backstreet Boy’s Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).
Enjoy.
