{"id":186844,"date":"2025-10-03T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186844\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:41:09","slug":"oct-2-nhl-preseason-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186844\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 2: NHL Preseason Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Ovechkin<\/a> played his first game of the preseason for the Washington Capitals, who lost 3-1 to the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena in Washington on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin, who had 21:07 of ice time, including 7:54 on the power play, had been recovering from a lower-body injury that caused him to leave practice a few minutes into the first day of training camp on Sept. 18. The 40-year-old left wing resumed skating last week and was cleared for full contact in practice on Monday.<\/p>\n

Capitals defenseman Martin Fehervary<\/a> also played his first game of the preseason and had a team-high five hits in 19:40 in ice time. The Capitals have been taking a cautious approach with Fehervary since he had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee on April 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought they were good,\u201d Washington coach Spencer Carbery said of Ovechkin and Fehervary. \u201cThey accomplished what they needed to accomplish. They needed to get through a game and get some game reps. ‘Ovi’ did that. ‘Marty’ did that, (and he) had a couple real good plays, kills a couple rushes with a good stick on puck, physical play. I thought he looked good for having not played in a game yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brett Harrison<\/a> scored twice, and Riley Tufte<\/a> also had a goal for the Bruins (3-1-1). Joonas Korpisalo<\/a> made 33 saves.<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard<\/a> scored, and Charlie Lindgren<\/a> made 24 saves for the Capitals (4-1-0).<\/p>\n

Leonard gave Washington a 1-0 lead at 9:42 of the first period, swatting in a rebound in front.<\/p>\n

Tufte tied it 1-1 at 16:16 of the second period. Lindgren stopped a puck that had been dumped the length of the ice, but the goaltender hesitated on how to play it, and Tufte lunged with his stick and knocked it five-hole into the net.<\/p>\n

Harrison gave Boston a 2-1 lead at 19:11. He drove hard to the net along the goal line and had his shot deflect in off the skate of Capitals defenseman Vincent Iorio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harrison then scored his second of the game into an empty net at 18:46 of the third period for the 3-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin played his first game of the preseason for the Washington Capitals, who lost 3-1 to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-186844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}