Alex Ovechkin notched his thirty first profession hat trick and Logan Thompson made 40 saves to steer the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night time in Las Vegas.
Ovechkin is 29 objectives shy of passing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL scoring document of 894 objectives after tallying the 864th, 865th and 866th objectives 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 objectives and Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas every had two assists for Washington, which improved to 6-0-0 in opposition to Western Convention groups with its first regular-season win in seven tries at T-Cellular Area.
Brett Howden and Keegan Kolesar every scored for Vegas, which had a two-game successful streak snapped. Ilya Samsonov completed with 20 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Blues 1
Martin Necas scored two objectives and earned two assists to steer Carolina previous St. Louis in Raleigh, N.C.
Necas prolonged his level streak to 13 video games. He has 10 objectives and 17 assists throughout that span. Eric Robinson had a purpose and two assists for the Hurricanes, who’ve gained 11 of their previous 13 video games. Andrei Svechnikov additionally scored a purpose and goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves to earn his ninth victory in 11 begins.
Jake Neighbours scored a purpose 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 successful streak come to an finish. Grubauer was making his first begin since Nov. 5. He missed 4 video games with an undisclosed damage as a consequence of an “unlucky accident” at dwelling, in line with Kraken coach Dan Bylsma.
Predators 5, Canucks 3
Steven Stamkos scored twice and Zachary L’Heureux scored his first profession purpose as visiting Nashville beat Vancouver.
Roman Josi collected one purpose 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 dwelling 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.
–Subject Degree Media