WASHINGTON — Nick Foligno scored in the sixth round of a shootout to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night.
The Capitals fell to 0-5 in shootouts this season. Sonny Milano gave them a brief lead when he scored in the fifth round, but former Capitals forward André Burakovsky tied it for the Hawks. Then Jakob Chychrun failed to score for the Capitals and Foligno ended it.
Ryan Donato and Teuvo Teräväinen scored for the Hawks in regulation, and Dylan Strome and Ryan Leonard scored for the Capitals. Leonard tied it with 8:42 left in the third period.
The Capitals lost forward Tom Wilson, who was picked earlier in the week for Canada’s Olympic team, in the first period to an apparent leg injury. They also were without forward Aliaksei Protas because of a lower-body injury.
The Hawks have won back-to-back games for the first time since mid-November. The Capitals earned points in 13 of 14 games from Nov. 15 through Dec. 11 but are just 3-6-2 since.
This was the teams’ first meeting since April 4, when Alex Ovechkin scored twice to tie Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record of 894.
Donato opened the scoring after just 73 seconds in the first period when he tipped in a shot by Ilya Mikheyev. Strome answered when he put away a rebound off a shot by Ethen Frank.
Teräväinen flipped the puck over sprawling goalie Logan Thompson on a second-period power play for a 2-1 lead.