Alex Ovechkin notched his thirty first profession hat trick and Logan Thompson made 40 saves to guide the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday evening in Las Vegas.
Ovechkin is 29 targets shy of passing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL scoring document of 894 targets after tallying the 864th, 865th and 866th targets of his profession. It additionally marked the 176th multi-goal recreation of Ovechkin’s profession, 13 shy of Gretzky’s document, and moved him right into a tie for the league goal-scoring lead (13) with Florida’s Sam Reinhart and Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.
Jakob Chychrun and Jakub Vrana additionally scored targets and Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas every had two assists for Washington, which improved to 6-0-0 towards Western Convention groups with its first regular-season win in seven tries at T-Cell Area.
Brett Howden and Keegan Kolesar every scored for Vegas, which had a two-game profitable streak snapped. Ilya Samsonov completed with 20 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Blues 1
Martin Necas scored two targets and earned two assists to guide Carolina previous St. Louis in Raleigh, N.C.
Necas prolonged his level streak to 13 video games. He has 10 targets and 17 assists throughout that span. Eric Robinson had a aim and two assists for the Hurricanes, who’ve gained 11 of their previous 13 video games. Andrei Svechnikov additionally scored a aim and goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves to earn his ninth victory in 11 begins.
Jake Neighbours scored a aim and Joel Hofer made 20 saves for the Blues, who’re 1-4-1 of their previous six video games.
Rangers 2, Kraken 0
Jonathan Fast made 24 saves for his second consecutive shutout and the 62nd of his profession as New York defeated host Seattle.
Alexis Lafreniere and Zac Jones scored for the Rangers, who gained their second recreation in a row and improved to 10-0-0 when scoring first this season. Fast, in his 18th NHL season, has gained all 4 of his begins to start the marketing campaign.
Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer stopped 21 of 23 pictures because the Kraken had a four-game profitable streak come to an finish. Grubauer was making his first begin since Nov. 5. He missed 4 video games with an undisclosed damage because of an “unlucky accident” at house, in keeping with Kraken coach Dan Bylsma.
Predators 5, Canucks 3
Steven Stamkos scored twice and Zachary L’Heureux scored his first profession aim as visiting Nashville beat Vancouver.
Roman Josi collected one aim and one help, Gustav Nyquist scored as soon as and Filip Forsberg posted two assists for the Predators, who snapped a three-game skid. Goaltender Juuse Saros made 24 saves.
Aatu Raty, Elias Pettersson and Kiefer Sherwood scored for the Canucks, who’ve solely three wins in 10 house video games this season. Danton Heinen recorded two assists and goalie Kevin Lankinen, who joined the Canucks this season after two campaigns with the Predators, stopped 16 pictures.
–Area Stage Media
