WASHINGTON — Scott Laughton had a objective and an help and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 3-1 on Saturday night time as Capitals star Alex Ovechkin tied the NHL document for 30-goal seasons.
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Flyers spoil Ovechkin’s 30th goal milestone, beat Caps 3-1
The Flyers have received three straight video games, together with each video games of their home-and-home collection with the Capitals, and eight of their final 11 total.
“I feel we be ok with ourselves. I feel guys have loosened up offensively, it definitely has helped that we’re scoring some objectives throughout this era, not each mistake is a deadly one,” Flyers coach John Tortorella stated. “We’re simply cohesive proper now. … We’re gonna have some bumps right here, and it’s remembering how we’re enjoying now once we’re in these conditions.”
Carter Hart completed with 39 saves for his third win in 4 begins and made a few ten-bell saves to close down Washington’s three energy play alternatives. The Capitals have gone 4 straight video games with no power-play objective and are 0-for-9 over that span.
“Hartsy performed a hell of a recreation for us,” Laughton stated. “He discovered pucks by site visitors, swallowed them up once we wanted him to, once we have been caught out within the zone for lengthy intervals of time. And I believed he was the most important a part of why we have been profitable tonight.”
Kuemper stopped 22 for the Capitals, who continued to experiment with totally different line mixtures as Nicklas Backstrom and Tom Wilson proceed to get comfy.
“The final two video games, we haven’t been ourselves,” Backstrom stated. “So I imply, that’s one thing we have now to vary. You discuss immediately, we had the puck so much, we had good possession, but it surely’s about scoring objectives. We received to create extra, we received to attain extra objectives. However on the similar time, you bought to provide them credit score … on the similar time, if we wish to win hockey video games, we have now to be higher.”
NOTES: Ovechkin’s objective additionally marked his four-hundredth residence objective, and he has scored at the very least 30 objectives in all however one season in his profession. He’s the second participant in NHL historical past, after Wayne Gretzky, to attain 400 objectives at residence and 400 objectives on the street. … Capitals ahead Dylan Strome was a wholesome scratch for the primary time this season, with Anthony Mantha again in after being scratched for 2 video games. … Flyers ahead Joel Farabee has factors in 5 of his final six video games. … Flyers ahead Owen Tippett has 11 factors in his final 12 video games and is on tempo for 48 factors this season. … Flyers ahead Travis Konecny’s 10-game level streak got here to an finish.
Flyers: Go to the Boston Bruins on Monday.
Capitals: Face the New York Islanders on Monday night time within the first a part of a back-to-back collection.
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