Tom Wilson scored two empty-net goals, and Alex Ovechkin scored in his third straight game for the Capitals (10-8-2). Connor McMichael and John Carlson each had three assists, and Logan Thompson made 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Darnell Nurse scored two goals, and Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (9-9-4), who have lost three of four. Connor McDavid had two assists, and Stuart Skinner made 14 saves.<\/p>\n
Aliaksei Protas gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead at 2:17 of the first period. Carlson\u2019s shot from the right point appeared to be deflected in front, and Protas knocked the puck into an open net from the far post.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin pushed the lead to 2-0 at 6:04 when he deflected Jakob Chychrun\u2019s point shot with Skinner screened. He has three goals during the goal streak.<\/p>\n
Nurse pulled the Oilers to within 2-1 at 7:05, scoring on a one-timer from the point off a pass from McDavid.<\/p>\n
Leonard increased the lead to 3-1 at 10:34. He gathered a loose puck at the left point, moved into the right face-off circle and scored on a snap shot.<\/p>\n
Nurse made it 3-2 at 12:17, taking a Zach Hyman pass from below the goal line and scoring on a wrist shot from above the left circle.<\/p>\n
Leonard gave the Capitals a 4-2 lead at 11:49 of the second period when he muscled around Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard, deked and lifted a backhand shot past Skinner.<\/p>\n
David Tomasek cut it to 4-3 at 2:41 of the third period. Andrew Mangianpane got to the puck behind the net and passed in front to Tomasek, who slid a backhand shot past Thomspon.<\/p>\n
Anthony Beauvillier scored off a pass from Dylan Strome on a 2-on-1 rush to make it 5-3 at 6:37.<\/p>\n
Draisaitl then made it 5-4 on the power play at 7:47, scoring on a one-timer from the right circle off a pass across the slot from McDavid, but Wilson scored empty-net goals at 18:59 and 19:27 for the 7-4 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson scored two empty-net goals, and Alex Ovechkin scored in his third straight game for the Capitals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-294602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294602","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=294602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}