The Washington Capitals fell to the Calgary Flames, 3-1, Tuesday evening at Capital One Enviornment in Washington. The loss drops the Capitals’ document to 38-12-8 (84 factors) on the season.
LINEUP
Logan Thompson (25-2-5, 2.25 GAA, .920 sv%) obtained the beginning between the pipes for the Capitals. Dan Vladar (7-10-5, 3.07 GAA, .888 sv%) obtained the beginning in objective for the visiting Flames. The beginning ahead traces and defensive pairs for the Capitals:
Alex Ovechkin — Dylan Strome — Aliaksei ProtasConnor McMichael — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom WilsonAndrew Mangiapane – Lars Eller — Ethen FrankBrandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Taylor Raddysh
Rasmus Sandin — John CarlsonMartin Fehervary — Matt RoyJakob Chychrun — Trevor Van Riemsdyk
Logan ThompsonCharlie Lindgren
Scratched: Jakub Vrana, Dylan McIlrath, Alexander Alexeyev.
Injured: Sonny Milano (upper-body), Nicklas Backstrom (hip), T.J. Oshie (again).
1ST PERIOD
The Flames opened the scoring within the second half of the opening body with a tally from Martin Pospisil (4) at 11:47. I. Solovyov (1) and R. Lomberg (6) had the helpers.
The Marty-Roon Dawg-Lombo line is BUZZING they usually’re rewarded with an enormous objective in Washington! pic.twitter.com/Ju4YhqJ6fl
— Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) February 26, 2025
The Flames prolonged their result in 2-0 late within the interval on a breakaway snipe by Matt Coronado (15) at 16:42. Ok. Bahl (13) had the lone help.
What a launch from Matt Coronato 😮💨😮💨 pic.twitter.com/ZMkdAWSy8Z
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) February 26, 2025
The Flames held the 2-0 lead into the primary intermission. The Flames dominated five-on-five shot makes an attempt, 25-15, and anticipated targets for, 1.16 to 0.68.
2ND PERIOD
The Capitals and Flames skated to a scoreless draw within the center body. It was the primary time the Capitals had been scoreless after two durations on house ice all season.
The Capitals dominated the five-on-five shot makes an attempt, 26-5, and led in anticipated targets for, 0.58 to 0.52.
3RD PERIOD
The Capitals obtained on the board with an influence play objective from Alex Ovechkin (30) at 4:52 of the ultimate body. John Carlson (35) and Dylan Strome (41) had the assists. Ovechkin is 12 targets shy of passing Wayne Gretzky (894g) for probably the most targets in NHL historical past.
CAREER GOAL 883 FOR ALEX OVECHKIN 🚨
12 away from Wayne Gretzky 👀#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/hCyWTYiWuP
— Hockey Day by day 365 l NHL Highlights & Information (@HockeyDaily365) February 26, 2025
Ovechkin has reached the 30-goal mark for the nineteenth time in his 20-year profession. Ovechkin’s 19 30-goal seasons are probably the most in NHL historical past. He has eight targets in his final eight video games.
Ovechkin, 39, is the fourth participant in NHL historical past to attain 30 targets at age 39 or older, becoming a member of Gordie Howe (44g in 1968-69 at age 40, 39g in 1967-68 at age 39 & 31g in 1969-70 at age 42), Johnny Bucyk (36g in 1975-76 at age 40) and Teemu Selanne (31g in 2010-11 at age 40).
Ovechkin scored his thirtieth objective of 2024-25 in his forty second recreation of the season and is the one participant in NHL historical past to achieve the 30-goal mark at age 39 or older in fewer than 50 video games.
Nevertheless, the Flames added a late objective from Jonathan Huberdeau (22) at 15:32 to seal the victory for the Flames. N. Kadri (23) had the lone help.
We love a Huby objective 🔥 pic.twitter.com/RZl2KUaqPa
— Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) February 26, 2025
That might be the ultimate.
