{"id":306848,"date":"2025-11-25T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:53:10","slug":"chychrun-scores-twice-capitals-ease-past-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306848\/","title":{"rendered":"Chychrun scores twice, Capitals ease past Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Wilson<\/a> and John Carlson<\/a> each had a goal and an assist for the Capitals (12-9-2), who were coming off a 5-3 loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday but have won four of five. Justin Sourdif<\/a> had two assists, and Logan Thompson<\/a> made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Denton Mateychuk<\/a> scored for the Blue Jackets (11-9-3), who have lost three of four (1-2-1). Elvis Merzlikins<\/a> made 26 saves.<\/p>\n

Chychrun gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead a 6:05 of the first period. Ryan Leonard<\/a> had the puck poked away from him in the high slot, but Chychrun pick it up, skated into the left circle and beat Merzlikens blocker side with a snap shot.<\/p>\n

Wilson made it 2-0 at 16:29 of the second period. Sourdif skated down the ride wing and dropped a pass in the bottom of the circle to Aliaksei Protas<\/a>, who quickly fed it across to Wilson for a one-timer into an open net.<\/p>\n

Chychrun increased the lead to 3-0 with 15 seconds remaining in the period, scoring a power-play goal with a shot from the point.<\/p>\n

Carlson then scored with three seconds remaining in the period to make it 4-0. Sourdif won a face-off in the right circle back to Alex Ovechkin<\/a>, who swept the puck across to Carlson for a one-timer from the high slot.<\/p>\n

Martin Fehervary<\/a> made it 5-0 at 4:05 of the third period, scoring on a one-timer from the right point.<\/p>\n

Mateychuk made it 5-1 at 5:50 when he scored on a rebound from the right circle.<\/p>\n

Columbus forward Mathieu Olivier<\/a> left the game late in the first period with an upper-body injury, and defenseman Zach Werenski<\/a> left late in the second period with an upper-body injury. The Blue Jackets were already playing without forward Kirill Marchenko<\/a>, who left the morning skate with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson and John Carlson each had a goal and an assist for the Capitals (12-9-2), who were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-306848","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\/306848","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=306848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}