SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin had his 34th career hat trick, Ivan Miroshnichenko scored twice, and the Washington Capitals beat the Utah Mammoth 7-4 on Thursday night to snap a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Anthony Beauvillier and Rasmus Sandin also scored for the Capitals, while Logan Thompson made 35 stops for Washington, which scored four unanswered goals after falling behind 3-1.<\/p>\n
Dylan Guenther scored twice for Utah. Logan Cooley and MacKenzie Weegar added a goal apiece and Vitek Vanecek made 17 saves for the Mammoth, who have dropped six of their last seven games at home.<\/p>\n
Miroshnichenko\u2019s first goal of the season at the 2:07 mark of the first period gave the Capitals the early lead. Jakob Chychrun sent the puck back to a trailing Miroshnichenko and he scored on a long-distance slap shot.<\/p>\n
Guenther scored on a power play with 6:56 left in the first off a feed from Clayton Keller to make it 1-1. Guenther put Utah ahead with 3:01 remaining, threading in a perfectly timed backhander also set up by Keller.<\/p>\n
Cooley extended the lead with 5.4 seconds left in the first with a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin erased the deficit in the second. He scored his first at the 5:01 mark of the period when he tipped in a puck in traffic and equalized with 8:32 left in the second, chipping the puck under the crossbar. <\/p>\n
Beauvillier\u2019s tip-in put Washington ahead 4-3 at the 2:43 mark of the third. Sandin made it a two-goal lead at 6:02 when he caught Vanecek out of position and threaded the puck between two defenders.<\/p>\n
Weegar pulled Utah back within one just two minutes later, but Miroshnichenko restored a two-goal lead at the 9:54 mark.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin completed the hat trick with an empty-netter with 5.2 seconds left. Utah is the 21st different NHL team he\u2019s had a hat trick against.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Capitals: at Vegas on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Mammoth: at Los Angeles on Saturday. <\/p>\n
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