Alex Ovechkin just scored a hat trick on RMNB’s ninth birthday.
After scoring in both the first and second periods, Ovi lit the lamp again in the third, sending a seeing-eye one-timer past Jimmy Howard.
The goal was Ovi’s third of the game, his 21st career hat trick.
The hats came flying down.
By Ian Oland 5 years ago
One of the fringe benefits of having taken more than 5,000 shots is that sometimes even the bad ones go in.
In the first period of Tuesday’s Caps-Wings game, Alex Ovechkin, well, he duffed it. This shot was garbage. It was way wide. It had no chance of going.
But Niklas Kronwall was feeling charitable, so here we are, talking about Ovi’s 23rd goal of the season.
By Ian Oland 5 years ago
Alex Ovechkin has recorded his 17th goal of the season late in the second period to give the Caps the lead over the Rangers.
While Ovi got the credit, this was a full-team effort.
The enduring highlight from the Capitals’ 5-4 overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens will be Carey Price’s last-second stick save on Alex Ovechkin. The stop was so good, the Great 8 clapped and high-fived the former Hart Trophy winner in a show of good sportsmanship.
But that imagery blurs what otherwise was a dominant performance by Ovechkin. The Russian machine scored twice on Price and led the Capitals in shots on goals (5). At five-on-five, Ovechkin was on the ice for 22 shot attempts for and 13 against, a 62.9 shot-attempt percentage.
Ovechkin now has 20 goals in 25 career games against Carey Price – one of the best goaltenders of his generation.
Alex Ovechkin continued his blistering goal-scoring pace against the Montreal Canadiens Thursday night.
The Russian machine scored twice — his third multi-goal game of the season — in the Caps’ 6-4 loss. The Capitals have played 11 times so far.
If you’re going to be the best, you have to beat the best and Alex Ovechkin has done just that in his Hall of Fame career.
Wednesday night on national television, the Russian machine scored twice against former Vezina Trophy-winner Henrik Lundqvist to notch his 122nd career multi-goal game. Since the start of 2005-06 season, Ovechkin has 42 more games with two-or-more goals than the next closest skater (Sidney Crosby – 80).
Ovechkin’s two nearly-identical power-play goals gave The King a dubious distinction. Lundqvist leapfrogged Marc-Andre Fleury as the goalie The Great 8 has scored the most goals against. The tallies were Ovechkin’s 23rd and 24th career goals scored on the longtime New York Ranger goalie.
The rematch of the Stanley Cup Final is going quite a bit like the original so far.
Washington’s two goals against the Knights so far both owe their authorship to Evgeny Kuznetsov, who scored the first and set up the second.
The Capitals’ second goal, scored by Alex Ovechkin, was off an And 1 mixtape.
