{"id":298722,"date":"2025-11-21T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:36:08","slug":"ovechkin-moves-into-top-10-in-points-in-capitals-win-against-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298722\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin moves into top 10 in points in Capitals win against Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank had two goals and two assists, and Sonny Milano<\/a> scored twice for Washington (11-8-0), which has won three straight and has points in four straight games (3-0-1). Charlie Lindgren<\/a> made 23 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy for \u2018Frankie\u2019 and Sonny to take this opportunity to show that it doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s going to happen, we can fill [in for] those guys if we get injuries,\u201d Ovechkin said. \u201cI\u2019m happy for them, they are working hard and a big part of the success tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brendan Gallagher<\/a> and Mike Matheson<\/a> each had a power-play goal and an assist for Montreal (10-7-3), which has lost five straight (0-4-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a fine line between where our game was a month ago to where it is now, but there\u2019s work to be done,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n

Sam Montembeault<\/a> allowed three goals on 10 shots and was replaced after Frank scored his second goal in a span of 1:38 at 3:38 of the second. Jakub Dobes<\/a> made 21 saves in relief.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin put the Capitals up 1-0 with a power-play goal at 1:00 of the first period. The Washington captain got his 905th goal with a wrist shot past Montembeault stick side two seconds after Strome drew the puck back to him off a face-off in the right circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were just so many emotions going through my mind,\u201d Strome said. \u201cFirst of all you want to make sure everyone\u2019s OK. It\u2019s a pretty scary thing. At the time of the first period, I kind of thought I was going to make it home in time, maybe. Obviously that didn\u2019t happen but I just tried to focus on hockey and the guys were right there with me, and they kind of knew a little bit before the game what was going on. So I found out after warmups that she was at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallagher tied it 1-1 on a power play at 15:47 with his first goal since April 8. Initially waved off, a video review determined the puck had crossed the goal line before it was cleared by Capitals defenseman Matt Roy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frank made it 2-1 on a power play at 2:00 of the second period when he took Ovechkin\u2019s pass from the right side at the top of the slot and fired a wrist shot past Montembeault glove side.<\/p>\n

Frank pushed it to 3-1 at 3:38. He drove the left side to get to a flip pass from Aliaksei Protas<\/a> and scored on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle that beat Montembeault five-hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank had two goals and two assists, and Sonny Milano scored twice for Washington (11-8-0), which has won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}