Like the sun rising in the morning, Alex Ovechkin scored another goal.
Ovechkin dented the twine on a two-minute long, 5-on-3 power play after Shayne Gostisbehere and Martin Necas both took blatant tripping penalties seconds apart on the same shift.
H-O-T-T-O-VI-GOAL
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— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 3, 2024
After wasting the first 90 seconds of the two-man advantage with failed entries and flubbed passes, the Capitals finally got set up the Hurricanes zone and then did The Thing. Dylan Strome at the half wall sent it to John Carlson at the point. Carlson then laid a perfect along the ice to Ovechkin in the left circle, who blasted the puck past Hurricanes’ goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov.
The unstoppable and perfectly-placed shot went over Kochetkov’s left shoulder and hit the far corner. The tally was Ovechkin’s fourth on the young Hurricanes’ goaltender in his career. Kochetkov is goalie no. 175 on Ovi’s list.
The captain’s tally came with 44 seconds left in the first period — a McNugget Minutes goal — to tie the game 1-1.
Ovechkin now has seven goals in 11 games to start the year, putting him on pace for 52 goals this season. If Ovi can continue this consistency, he would not only break Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goals record of 894 this season, but he’d also have his tenth career 50-goal campaign, a new NHL record.
Ovechkin has scored in both games of the Capitals’ back-to-back this weekend. He has tallied in four consecutive games (5g) overall and has scored all seven of his tallies in his last eight games.
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