Ovechkin’s 874th NHL goal gives Capitals OT win against Senators

Logan Thompson made 24 saves for his second straight shutout for the Capitals (30-10-5), who’re 6-0-3 of their previous 9 video games.

“It was a enjoyable sport. It was a playoff-style sport,” Thompson stated. “We knew they have been going to come back out exhausting. Numerous talent in that lineup over there. They’ve acquired a coach that pushes them exhausting. We simply survived a bit. We didn’t get to our sport till the third. Credit score to the fellows, we caught with it, type of like we’ve been doing all 12 months. And ‘Ovi’ got here in clutch once more.”

Thompson is 8-0-0 with a 1.48 goals-against common and .948 save share in his previous eight begins.

“‘LT’ as we speak was unbelievable,” Ovechkin stated. “The primary two durations, OT, third interval, he was excellent. I feel we simply stored rolling. You may see what number of possibilities we had within the third. Clearly, Tom [Wilson] had a breakaway, so I feel it was type of snowballing and coming and finally we scored.”

Merilainen, who was additionally going for his second straight shutout, made 25 saves for the Senators (22-18-4), who’re 3-0-1 of their previous 4 video games.

“I believed we performed nice,” Ottawa coach Travis Inexperienced stated. “Did now we have our seems to win the sport? Yeah. Might now we have performed a bit higher? Yeah, sure components, however they’ve acquired a great hockey staff. Their goalie performed nicely.”

Merilainen stored the sport scoreless at 4:21 of the third interval when he stopped a point-blank one-timer from Ovechkin on the ability play. He then stretched throughout along with his proper pad to rob Andrew Mangiapane on the left submit at 5:47.

“Extraordinarily impressed,” Senators defenseman Nick Jensen stated of Merilainen. “It is simply, it is an enormous confidence for us when now we have goalies again there which might be standing tall and assured in internet … and it is thrilling to see somebody like which have success.”

Washington was 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

“I believed [Thompson] was implausible, particularly in that second interval once we’re taking over water (outshot 9-5),” Carbery stated. “To have the ability to get into the break heading into the locker room at 0-0 at that time I feel was a major accomplishment. After which the fellows picked him up.”

NOTES: Ovechkin scored his thirteenth profession time beyond regulation objective on the street, passing Jagr and John Tavares for probably the most in NHL historical past. … Ottawa defenseman Donovan Sebrango had 11:38 of ice time in his NHL debut.