{"id":936820,"date":"2026-10-17T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936820\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:32:12","slug":"capitals-score-four-straight-goals-pull-away-from-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936820\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals score four straight goals, pull away from Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixteen of Thompson\u2019s saves were made in the third period.<\/p>\n

Arseny Gritsyuk<\/a> and Timo Meier<\/a> scored for the Devils (4-4-0), who won three of their previous four games.\u00a0Jake Allen<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

Gritsyuk gave New Jersey a 1-0 lead at 10:04 of the first period with a wrist shot from along the left wall that eluded Thompson one second after a power play ended.<\/p>\n

Leonard tied it 1-1 at 16:42 with an end-to-end effort on a power play. He carried the puck up ice, split two defenders and deked Allen before sliding it across the goal line.<\/p>\n

Ilya Protas<\/a> gave Washington a 2-1 lead at 1:16 of the second period when he received a saucer pass from Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u00a0on the rush and sent a wrist shot into the top far corner from the left circle.<\/p>\n

It was Ovechkin\u2019s 761st career assist, moving him within one of tying Nicklas Backstrom (762) for the Capitals\u2019 all-time record.<\/p>\n

Dylan Strome<\/a>\u00a0extended the lead to 3-1 with his first of the season at 4:36, scoring on a backhand at the right post.<\/p>\n

Jenner made it 4-1 when he scored off a blocked shot in front of the crease at 11:14.<\/p>\n

He has four goals in eight games with Washington after scoring 13 in 67 for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season.<\/p>\n

Meier scored from the right circle on a power play with 19 seconds left in the third for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen of Thompson\u2019s saves were made in the third period. Arseny Gritsyuk and Timo Meier scored for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-936820","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\/936820","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=936820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}