Washington Capitals, who visited, continues to follow the Presidents’ Cup when they open a house and home series against Columbus Blue jackets on Saturday.
Capitals (50-19-9, 109 points) Winnipeg Jets follows three points for the upper seed in NHL playoffs, but he has a game.
Columbus (36-33-9, 81 points) is based on fine hopes for the joker card point, but Montreal Canadiens can be removed from the playoff discussion if he beats Ottawa senators on Friday night.
Alex Ovechkin’s Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goals broke the records of the capitals, on Thursday, Carolina Hurricanes against a 5-4 shooting win against the best hockeys played.
Tom Wilson scored the 33rd goal of the season, Pierre-Luc Dubois spoke in the arrangement and added the winner of the shooting and scored Nic Dowd and Dylan Strome. Charlie Lindgren saved 30 for Washington at the third flat start with Logan Thompson on the wounded list.
“I think we’ve found a way to continue to fight all year round,” Strome said. “We didn’t get a bad tension for five, six, seven people in a row. We found a way to jump from it, so I thought we were doing it tonight.”
Strom has nine points (three goals, six assists) with a six -game line.
After a ceremony honoring Ovechkin’s record, the capitals were 2-0 behind. They watched 2-1 before scoring three goals in a second period.
“I think we should play in the playoffs in the second period,” Ovechkin, who has four hits, said. He said. “Physical. Speed. To control the neutral area and the attack area only.”
Capitals defender Jakob Chychrun (disease) was a late scratch.
Ovechkin’s status on Saturday is uncertain because Gretzky is expected to listen to one or two games after the record is broken. The capitals had an event plan for fans with Ovechkin to celebrate the success of Ovechkin on Friday afternoon.
On Thursday, Jet Greaves, an emergency recall from the American Hockey League Cleveland, kept his hopes alive and made 39 victories against the visiting Buffalo Sabres.
On Thursday morning, Elvis Merzlikins left Greaves after leaving the training with an unidentified injury. Merzlikins was not in optional application on Friday and will miss the match on Saturday.
Captain Boone Jenner scored a goal at the beginning of the third period for two winning blue jackets. Columbus was 2-0 early and 2-1 behind after two periods.
“We need these points, Jen Jenner said. “We talked before the third place. No matter what the first 40, we had to go out and win a period. I liked our flexibility to do this. We just stuck, we tried to win a shift and go to the next.”
The remaining games of blue jackets are home to Philadelphia and against New York Islanders.
Aries Dean Evason, “tonight we played good and hard enough to get two points here.” He said. “We should continue to do this in the last four games.”
Columbus defender Jake Christiansen, 12:42 of the first period with the upper body injury and did not return. He will also miss the match on Saturday.
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