Field Level Media
14 Oct 2021, 08:25 GMT+10
Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the third period to move into sole possession of fifth place on the NHL's all-time goal list Wednesday night, leading the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 win over the visiting New York Rangers in the season opener for both teams.
T.J. Oshie, Justin Schultz and Hendrix Lapierre (in his NHL debut) also scored for the Capitals. Washington goalie Vitek Vanecek made 23 saves.
The win was also produced a milestone for Capitals coach Peter Laviolette. He earned his 674th win behind the bench, breaking the mark he shared with John Tortorella for the most wins by an American-born coach
Chris Kreider scored in the third period for the Rangers. Goalie Alexandar Georgiev recorded 22 saves.
The Capitals were in control before Ovechkin's goals thanks to a first-period goal by Oshie, who scored off an Ovechkin feed at 4:39, and the goals by Schultz and Lapierre, who tallied 24 seconds apart in the second. Washington outshot New York 15-5 in the middle period.
Lapierre, 19, became the first Capitals player to score his first goal as a teenager since Andre Burakovsky scored in his NHL debut on Oct. 9, 2014.
Ovechkin -- drafted first overall by the Capitals in 2004, shortly after Lapierre turned 2 years old -- scored his 731st career goal, moving him into a tie with Marcel Dionne for fifth place all-time, by putting back the rebound of a power-play shot by Anthony Mantha 2:37 into the third.
Ovechkin needed fewer than 10 minutes to collect goal No. 732. Longtime teammate Evgeny Kuznetsov fired the puck from center ice off the boards and to Ovechkin, who surged past K'Andre Miller and backhanded the shot past Georgiev with 7:59 left.
A few minutes later, the Capital One Arena scoreboard aired a pre-taped video of Dionne congratulating Ovechkin and putting on a Capitals hat, which he said he'd wear for a day.
Ovechkin, who signed a five-year contract with the Capitals in July, is nine goals away from tying Brett Hull for fourth place and 162 goals behind the all-time leader, Wayne Gretzky.
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