Ovechkin Scores 742nd In Capitals’ 4-3 Win Over Blue Jackets

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By NICOLE KRAFTNovember 12, 2021 astatine 10:09 pm

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Alex Ovechkin got his 742nd vocation goal, Conor Sheary scored with 1:22 near and the Washington Capitals bushed the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 Friday night.

Garnet Hathaway scored doubly to assistance Washington get its 3rd consecutive win. Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 shots for his archetypal triumph since Oct. 29.

Sean Kuraly had 2 goals for Columbus, and Gustav Nyquist besides scored. Joonas Korpisalo had 24 saves.

Ovechkin’s laser changeable from the close ellipse astatine 10:19 of the archetypal play tied the people 1-1 with his league-leading 12th extremity of the season. Ovechkin broke a necktie with Bobby Hull for 4th connected the NHL’s all-time goals.

Hathaway gave Washington a 2-1 pb 24 seconds into the 2nd play disconnected a walk from Axel Jonsson-Fjallby. He got his 2nd second of the nighttime and 2nd of the play connected a breakaway astatine 7:23.

Kuraly pulled the Blue Jackets wrong 1 with his 2nd of the nighttime astatine 8:11, implicit a sprawling Martin Fehervary. Jakub Voracek’s assistance was his team-leading 11th of the play and extended his assistance streak to 4 games.

Nyquist tied the people 22 seconds aboriginal with his 2nd of the play and archetypal since opening night. Assists from Oliver Bjorkstrand and Boone Jenner extended their constituent streaks to 4 games each.

Kuraly got Columbus connected the scoreboard with his archetypal with the Blue Jackets, burying a bouncing rebound from Alexandre Texier 2:33 into the game.

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