The Washington Capitals have won their last 3 games and have been increasing their high scoring chances as well. The boys put belt to ass to the Canadiens last night with a score of 8-4.
The Captain got us on board first last night instantly on the power-play and it was the first of many on the night. Nice face-off win right to the quick ripper from the GR8 One. 1-0 Caps.
Montreal got on the board where the puck barely squeaked past Thompson off a rebound shot, Brendan Gallagher poked it past to tie the game at 1 a piece.
Early in the 2nd at the remaining seconds of the Cap’s power-play the puck found Ethen Frank alone between the circles who ripped a wrister past the Hab’s goalie to make it 2-1 Caps.
Franky wasn’t done yet minutes after his first goal he got a beautiful transition lob pass on the back hand then did the rest with another weak side wrister to make it 3-1 Caps.
The Habs got back on the board where the Caps D got sucked in too close to the net allowing for an easy point pass to a wide open one timer that Lindgren couldn’t stop. 3-2 Caps.
The Capitals answered back via Jakob Chychrun who got a nice feed across the point where he was left wide open to attack the zone where he ripped a clapper past the Hab’s goalie. 4-2 Caps.
The Habs quickly answered back off a poor Caps attempt to keep the puck in the Hab’s zone. Montreal then transitioned the puck pass a well defended Caps team but wasn’t enough Nick Suzuki tallied the goal to beat Lindgren. 4-3 Caps.
Then with around 2ish minutes left in the 2nd the breakout pass at center ice found Sonny Milano who used his speed to put the only Hab’s D-man on his heels where he easily passed by him then past the Montreal goalie with a nice backhand forehand move. 5-3 Caps.
Then in the beginning of the 3rd the Habs got on the board again via another poor clearing attempt the puck found Mike Matheson’s stick who ripped it past Lindgren. 5-4 Caps.
Then after some back and forth the Caps finally gave us some breathing room via who else Ovechkin who was left wide open at the right circle for an easy transition wrister. 6-4 Caps.
Then with 2mins left and the Hab’s net empty the king of the empty net gets his Hatty. This was Ovi’s 33rd hat trick. This makes him 4th all-time where he passes Phil Esposito and Brett Hull.
Milano added another goal for fun to make the final 8-4.
Ovechkin notched his 907th goal and now one of only 3 players in NHL history to record a 4 game goal streak at the age of 40 or older. Jagr and Dean Prentice being the others.
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