Alex Ovechkin had his most impassioned period of the season with 20 minutes left in regulation, and the Washington Capitals down 2-0 to the New Jersey Devils. In fact, his heroics got the Capitals a standings point they may not have deserved.<\/p>\n
First, Ovechkin played the role of the Dish Master, notching a primary assist on Connor McMichael\u2019s second goal of the season. The tally came exactly one minute into the third period.<\/p>\n
The Capitals captain then followed that up with his 902nd career goal, tying the game 2-2 with 11:31 remaining.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin made the play despite being tripped after a faceoff. He eventually got up and camped out in front of the crease. As Connor McMichael sent a shot attempt wide to the net, Ovechkin caught the biscuit and immediately slid it under Devils goaltender Jake Allen.<\/p>\n
The goal was Ovechkin\u2019s fifth of the season and the 1,637th point of his career. With the tally, Ovechkin extended his NHL record for most game-tying goals in league history with 151.<\/p>\n
The Capitals could not take the lead, though, and the team eventually fell in the shootout. Ovechkin had a shootout attempt in the fourth round, but despite deking Allen to the ice, he could not pot a goal.<\/p>\n
In 17:38 of ice time, Ovechkin had two points (1g, 1a), three shots, and four hits. At five-on-five, Ovechkin had 8 shot attempts, 3 scoring chances, and 2 high danger chances individually. The Capitals out-attempted the Devils 18 to 12 with Ovechkin on the ice, and the team recorded 70.9 percent of the expected goals.<\/p>\n
A great burst, but not enough to reverse the Capitals\u2019 losing ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin had his most impassioned period of the season with 20 minutes left in regulation, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-294614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}