WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored twice and hit the 30-goal mark for the 20th time in his NHL career, and the Washington Capitals beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Tom Wilson also had two goals, Jakob Chychrun had a goal and two assists, and Ryan Leonard added a goal and an assist. Pierre-Luc Dubois had four assists for the Capitals, who have won three straight as they try to climb back into playoff position.<\/p>\n
Travis Sanheim, Carl Grundstrom, Christian Dvorak and Denver Barkey scored and Porter Martone made his NHL debut for the Flyers, whose three-game winning streak came to an end.<\/p>\n
Late in the first, Wilson\u2019s shot from the slot made it 1-0 in his 900th career NHL game. Minutes later, Ovechkin cashed in Matt Roy\u2019s cross-crease feed to extend Washington\u2019s lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin has reached 30 goals in all but one season: the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign, where he had 24 in 45 games.<\/p>\n
The Flyers fought back to open the second, evening the score in a span of 4:36 minutes on a point shot from Sanheim and lay-up from Grundstrom. Washington didn\u2019t take long to respond, though, as Chychrun\u2019s one-timer on the power play made it 3-2. Leonard scored another power-play goal later in the period to put the Capitals back up by two.<\/p>\n
While Dvorak pulled things to 4-3 to open the third, Ovechkin got to the front and buried a one-timer to restore the two-goal lead with his 928th career goal.<\/p>\n
Barkey\u2019s deflection brought the Flyers within one, but Washington and Thompson fended off a comeback effort while Wilson iced the win late with an empty-netter.<\/p>\n
Thompson stopped 20 of 24 shots, and Dan Vladar had 12 saves on 17 shots.<\/p>\n
Martone, who signed his entry-level contract on Sunday, led the Flyers with five shots on goal through nearly 17 minutes in his debut.<\/p>\n
Flyers: Host Detroit on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Capitals: Visit New Jersey on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored twice and hit the 30-goal mark for the 20th time in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[278,54143,8869,977,4509,1468,5,284,7603,4,10617,3494,1467,56,5205,4863,3492,47087,10616,14467,60588,14469,14470,516,280,3673],"class_list":{"0":"post-533917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-alexander-ovechkin","9":"tag-capitals-flyers-score","10":"tag-carl-grundstrom","11":"tag-christian-dvorak","12":"tag-daniel-vladar","13":"tag-flyers","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jakob-chychrun","16":"tag-matt-roy","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","19":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","22":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","23":"tag-pierre-luc-dubois","24":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","25":"tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","26":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","27":"tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","28":"tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40818-ap-virginia-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","31":"tag-ryan-leonard","32":"tag-tom-wilson","33":"tag-travis-sanheim"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}