{"id":564037,"date":"2026-03-27T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:27:08","slug":"ovechkin-sets-nhl-mark-with-hat-trick-against-21st-franchise-capitals-top-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564037\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin sets NHL mark with hat trick against 21st franchise, Capitals top Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guenther scored again at 16:59, sliding the puck between the legs of Thompson off a pass from Keller to give the Mammoth a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/logan-cooley-8483431\" title=\"Logan Cooley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooley<\/a> scored a power-play goal at 19:53, tapping in a loose puck that was behind Thompson off a shot from Sergachev to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the first period, we were moving it well,\u201d said Cooley. \u201cI think we kind of just started to let it slip, give up some odd-man rushes, and they capitalized. Every game is so important right now, and it stings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin scored his first of the game at 5:01 of the second period, tapping in a shot by\u00a0Sandin to cut the lead to 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a hard situation for us, but you never know what&#8217;s going to happen,\u201d said Ovechkin.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin then tied it 3-3 at 11:28 with\u00a0a wrist shot from the point past Vanecek.<\/p>\n<p>Beauvillier scored a power-play goal at 2:43 of the third period, tipping in a shot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cole-hutson-8484873\" title=\"Cole Hutson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Hutson<\/a>\u00a0to give the Capitals a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everybody was emotionally involved. It was a tough game on both sides,\u201d said Beauvillier. \u201cI think winning a game like that with lots of emotion feels great. We&#8217;re still in the fight where we got two points, and we&#8217;re going to fight till the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandin extended the lead to 5-3 at 6:02, putting the puck on net from the point while\u00a0Vanecek was out of position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone needs to contribute with whatever they can,\u201d said Sandin. \u201cIf it&#8217;s scoring a goal or if it&#8217;s blocking a shot, I think we did that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mackenzie-weegar-8477346\" title=\"MacKenzie Weegar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacKenzie Weegar<\/a> made it 5-4 at 8:06, scoring with a wrist shot from the point past Thompson. It was his first goal with the Mammoth since being acquired from the Calgary Flames on March 4.<\/p>\n<p>Miroshnichenko scored his second goal at 9:54, flicking a backhand through the legs of\u00a0Vanecek to push the lead back to 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guenther scored again at 16:59, sliding the puck between the legs of Thompson off a pass from Keller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-564037","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\/564037","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=564037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}