The Washington Capitals beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 in overtime in an NHL home game.
The pucks were scored by Alexander Ovechkin (17th minute), Dmitry Orlov (25th minute), Belarusian Aleksey Protas (45th minute) and forward Tom Wilson (61st minute) became the author of the winning goal in overtime. Wilson's assistants were Evgeny Kuznetsov and Dmitry Orlov.
Zhamnov contracted the coronavirus. How COVID is affecting sports Hockey Ovechkin scored his 27th goal of the season. Thus, the Russian striker became the sole leader of the NHL scorer and sniper race, scoring 55 (27 + 28) points in the “goal + pass” system in 40 regular season games. Previously, the Russian shared this title with Edmonton forward Leon Draisaitl.
The Russian forward of "Washington" showed the second result in his career in points scored in 40 games this season. Only once, in a similar number of matches, was he able to score a large number of effective actions. This happened in the 2009/10 season, when he scored 64 (30 + 34) points in this segment of the season.
Ovechkin also scored 1,375 points in 1,237 games and outscored ex-Minnesota hockey player Mike Modano, who scored 1,374 points in 1,499 games. Ovechkin now occupies the sole 24th place in NHL history in this indicator. One line up in the rankings is former St. Louis and Dallas player Brett Hull, who has 1,391 points.
Ovechkin is currently the fourth-best scorer in NHL history. On account of the Russian striker was 757 goals. He is behind Jaromir Jagr (766), Gordie Howe (801) and Wayne Gretzky (894).
Washington is fifth in the Western Conference standings with 53 points in 40 games. In the next match, the club on January 21 will go to the guest match with Boston.
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