Alex Ovechkin scored a goal and the shootout game-winner during the Capitals’ thrilling 4-3 victory Saturday against the Sabres.
The Russian machine is on an absurd six-game goal-scoring streak and a 14-game point-scoring streak.
But if you think Ovechkin was happy with his performance, you’d be wrong.
By Ian Oland 9 months ago
Heading into Thursday night’s game against the Boston Bruins, the Caps had lost three-straight games — two of which they scored 0 goals — and looked listless in this process.
Lars Eller finally broke the 177-minute goalless streak in the second period. Then Alex Ovechkin did his thing. The Capitals captain tallied his 24th goal of the season on the powerplay and later scored the game-winning goal in the shootout to once again prove the Capitals are not suck
Capitals forward TJ Oshie is one of the deadliest scorers in the shootout and Sunday he showed why once again.
After the Caps and Oilers remained tied 1-1 through regulation and three-on-three overtime, the two teams settled the game in a shootout.
Oshie scored the game-winner.
Friday night, the Caps and Hurricanes traded leads all night long, forcing a shootout to determine the victor. That ended up being bad news for the Canes.
Barry Trotz sent out TJ Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov consecutively. Both players scored, ending the skills competition a round early.
While the Washington Capitals lost their third straight game Saturday night, there were positives to take out of their matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning, as they peppered 35 shots on net, scored their first goal in over 109 minutes of play, and managed to pick up a point.
And then there was Evgeny Kuznetsov’s shootout goal.
By Chris Gordon 3 years ago
It’s the preseason, but TJ Oshie’s dangling is in mid-season form.
After the Caps and Blues could not decide things during regulation and overtime, the game went to a shootout. Osh was the Caps first shooter and boy did he deliver.
TJ Oshie doesn’t just score in the shootout. He embarrasses whatever goalie is net for the opposing team. And tonight, in the words of CSN Washington’s Joe Beninati, Oshie “put [Anton] Forsberg in the parking lot” after a hard deke to the left.
Reader Fred E was apparently at Wednesday’s preseason game in Raleigh, and he’s got compelling video to prove it. The Capitals lost 4-3 to the Hurricanes, but in the effort they showed off more shootout skills from summer supplement TJ Oshie.
Oshie, as you may already know, is jokes.
Even though Evgeny Kuznetsov is goalless in his last 12 games and scoreless in his last seven, he’s been dangerous lately every time he’s had the puck on his stick. On Wednesday night, the Capitals’ debonair dangler deked Oilers goaltender Viktor Fasth onto his rear and scored a most beautiful shootout goal.
(Someone had to do some paralyzing since Matt Hendricks didn’t get an attempt.)
Photo: Alex Brandon
While Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is one of the greatest natural goal scorers of all-time, he’s never been lights out in the shootout. In his career, Ovechkin has connected on 30.2% of his shots, which is less effective than Nicklas Backstrom, Eric Fehr, Brooks Laich, and Evgeny Kuznetsov.
This season, new bench boss Barry Trotz has utilized Ovechkin in the clean-up spot, having him shoot only if a shootout is tied after three rounds. On Saturday, to change the bad juju after two straight shootout losses, Trotz let assistant coach and always-dour-human-being Blaine Forsythe pick the third shooter.
He went with the Russian machine. It paid off.
