WASHINGTON, March 12. /TASS/. Russian forward and “Washington” captain Alexander Ovechkin registered an assist during an away game of the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season against “Philadelphia.”
Ovechkin failed to tally any points for the third consecutive NHL contest.
The game concluded with the home team victorious by a score of 4-1. The winning goals were scored by Travis Konecny (25th minute), Trevor Zegras (33rd), Jamie Drysdale (48th), and Owen Tippett (59th), while Ryan Leonard (10th) scored for the losing side.
Ovechkin’s total stands at 51 points based on the “goal plus assist” system (24 goals and 27 assists). In NHL regular seasons, he has scored 921 goals, making him the record holder in this metric. In the league’s all-time top goal-scorers list, including the playoffs, he sits in second place, trailing Canadian forward Wayne Gretzky (1,016). Ovechkin’s last point-scoring performance was on March 1st in the game against “Montreal” (2-6), where he netted a brace.
“Philadelphia” currently holds sixth place in the Metropolitan Division, accumulating 71 points across 64 games, while “Washington” is fifth in the same division, possessing the same number of points but having played 66 matches. In their next outing on March 13th, “Washington” will play “Buffalo” on the road, and “Philadelphia” will similarly travel to face “Minnesota” on the same day.
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