{"id":324761,"date":"2025-12-03T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324761\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:36:10","slug":"capitals-get-past-kings-for-5th-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324761\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals get past Kings for 5th straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington went 1-for-2 on the power play for the second straight game after going 3-for-23 in its previous nine games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re scoring goals, that\u2019s the most important thing, and we just have to stick with it,\u201d said Ovechkin, who had the secondary assist on the play and has seven points (two goals, five assists) during a five-game point streak.<\/p>\n<p>Kempe tied it 1-1 at 5:28 of the second period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/anze-kopitar-8471685\" title=\"Anze Kopitar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anze Kopitar<\/a> skated in on a 2-on-1 rush, stopped in the right circle, and passed to a charging Kempe for a one-timer in front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that\u2019s as well as Kempe has skated, maybe, since I can remember this season,\u201d Hiller said. \u201cHe really looked dangerous, and I think he if can keep doing that he\u2019s going to get more of those types of looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Beauvillier gave the Capitals the lead back, Protas sealed the game with an empty-net goal at 18:18 of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Following the win, the Capitals stayed on the ice to shake the hand of Kopitar, who will be retiring at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(We) just wanted to congratulate him on an amazing career,&#8221; Ovechkin said. &#8220;Obviously, it\u2019s a sad moment, but it\u2019s life, and it\u2019s sad but I wish him all the best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a show of respect, obviously. It\u2019s a game, but after the whistle, it\u2019s to show respect to him for all he\u2019s done for this game, for this league, and it\u2019s just about all of our respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington went 1-for-2 on the power play for the second straight game after going 3-for-23 in its previous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324761","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\/324761","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=324761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}