The Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders by a rating of 3-1 at UBS Area of their penultimate regular-season recreation on Tuesday to enhance to 51-21-9 (.685 factors share) this season. Washington, who went 3-6-1 of their earlier 10 outings, has already clinched the highest seeds within the Metropolitan Division and Japanese Convention. New York was already eradicated from postseason rivalry coming into the sport. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren, who has received 9 of his final 14 begins relationship again to February 6, made 34 saves within the victory.
Washington’s Traces
Alex Ovechkin — Dylan Strome —Anthony BeauvillierConnor McMichael – Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom WilsonAndrew Mangiapane – Lars Eller — Ryan LeonardBrandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Taylor Raddysh
Rasmus Sandin — Matt RoyAlexander Alexeyev — Trevor Van RiemsdykMartin Fehervary — Dylan McIlrath
LindgrenHunter Shepard
Scratched
RW Ethen Frank
D Jakob Chychrun
D John Carlson
Injured
G Logan Thompson (upper-body)
LW Sonny Milano (upper-body)
C Nicklas Backstrom (hip)
RW T.J. Oshie (again)
C Aliaksei Protas (lower-body)
Alexeyev drew into the lineup whereas Chychrun rested.
New York’s Traces
Anders Lee — Bo Horvat — Kyle PalmieriMaxim Tsyplakov – Jean-Gabriel Pageau — Simon HolmstromPierre Engvall – Casey Cizikas — Hudson FaschingMatt Martin — Kyle MacLean — Marc Gatcomb
Adam Pelech — Ryan PulockScott Perunovich — Noah DobsonScott Mayfield — Tony DeAngelo
Ilya SorokinMarcus Hogberg
Scratched
LW Anthony Duclair
D Adam Boqvist
D Mike Reilly
G Tristan Lennox
Injured
G Semyon Varlamov (lower-body)
C Mathew Barzal (lower-body)
D Alexander Romanov (sickness)
First Interval
Scoring
8:15, 1-0 Washington (PPG): Strome wristed a shot that went off of the leg of Pulock, who was camped out on the left put up, and beneath the blocker of Sorokin from the highest after getting a move by Dubois from the best half-wall. Strome tied his career-high along with his twenty seventh objective of the season, which was set a 12 months in the past. 29 of Dubois’ 45 assists have been primaries, which leads Washington. The Capitals have scored at the least one power-play objective in seven of their final 9 video games and have gone nine-for-21 with the person benefit (.429) since March 30. Strome (three targets) has factored on seven of the Capitals’ 9 power-play targets in that stretch. Sandin (4-26-30 in 81 video games) reached the 30-point mark for the second time in his profession (additionally 2022-23: 7-28-35 in 71).
Tying a career-high in targets with a seeing-eye shot#ALLCAPS | @BlueHalo pic.twitter.com/8os8ju4Dwu
— z – Washington Capitals (@Capitals) April 15, 2025
Stats
10-8 Washington in pictures
Washington scored as soon as on their first two energy performs
New York did not strike on their first alternative
5-2 Washington in hits
5-3 New York in blocked pictures
6-6 in giveaways
Graphs: Pure StatTrick
Second Interval
Fehervary didn’t come out for the interval on account of an obvious foot/ankle harm sustained from blocking a shot however returned halfway by way of.
Right here’s what occurred to Fehervary. Appeared to catch proper skate and switch foot/ankle. pic.twitter.com/jNB1ifYsXv
— Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) April 16, 2025
Scoring
7:52, 2-0: Strome unleashed a slapper from the slot that went beneath the blocker of Sorokin after Ovechkin pushed Mayfield behind the online and ripped him off earlier than throwing the puck to Strome. Strome established a brand new single-season profession excessive along with his twenty eighth objective of the season in 81 video games (2023-24: 27 in 82) and hit the 80-point mark for the primary time of his nine-season NHL profession. Ovechkin has tallied at the least one level in every of his final eight video games performed (7-5-12). Strome turned simply the fifth Capital to document an 80-point season since 2009-10, becoming a member of Ovechkin (six instances), Backstrom (two), Evgeny Kuznetsov (two) and Alexander Semin.
The Dylan Strome Present on the Island tonight pic.twitter.com/aQdJER6hEQ
— z – Washington Capitals (@Capitals) April 16, 2025
Stats
23-20 Washington in pictures
together with 13-12 within the second
Washington went one-for-four on the ability play within the first 40 minutes
New York didn’t rating on their first three man benefits
9-5 Washington in hits
12-12 in blocked pictures
11-8 New York in giveaways
Third Interval
Scoring
11:36, 2-1: Fasching caught the puck rimming across the boards, threw the puck right into a field of gamers, drove to the cage, and swiped his keep on with direct the puck off of the leg of Pageau and over the blocker of Lindgren.
Hudson Fasching will get a present #Isles pic.twitter.com/S0FKed3jTv
— Rob Taub (@RTaub_) April 16, 2025
18:49, 3-1 (ENG) After Wilson threw the puck again alongside the left boards, Strome shot the puck into the empty web from heart ice. It was Strome’s third profession NHL hat trick. Strome has recorded 13 factors (six targets) in his final 9 video games.
Dylan Strome scored ALL 3 targets for the Caps tonight and completes the hat trick 🔥🎩 pic.twitter.com/T1JaTFJWal
— Gino Laborious (@GinoHard_) April 16, 2025
Stats
36-35 Washington in pictures
14-12 New York within the third interval
New York failed to attain on 4 energy performs
13-8 Washington in hits
19-17 Washington in blocked pictures
14-12 New York in giveaways
Washington shook fingers with Martin, who will retire on the finish of the season, after his final residence recreation.
The Caps keep to shake fingers with Matt Martin and the entire UBS Area crowd salutes him in his final recreation on Lengthy Island 👏 pic.twitter.com/0aO5eTFqDx
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) April 16, 2025
Subsequent recreation: Thursday at Pittsburgh Penguins (7 PM ET, ESPN)
By Harrison Brown
