Tom Wilson scored a target to help Montreal Canadiens, who visited Washington Capitals’ Eastern Conference semi-finals on Wednesday, on Wednesday’s 5th match.
4-1 wins in the series, the capitals, Carolina Hurricanes will face the next round. Hurricanes overturned New Jersey Devils in five games during the first round series.
Washington captain Alex Ovechkin scored a goal in the first period for the 76th Career Play -off goal and connected Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux to the 12th in the history of NHL. The man was the 30th season goal with the advantage, he made him a tie with Famer Nicklas Lidstrom and Joe Pavelski for fifth on the list of all time in the league.
Washington defender Jakob Chychrun scored a goal in the first period and Brandon Duhaime found the third empty network.
Dylan Strome scored two assists to extend the score series to eight games extending to normal Season. Logan Thompson saved 28 for the capitals.
Emil Heineman from Montreal threw a deviation in front of the door in 2:40 of the third period and reduced the Canadiens deficit to 3-1.
Canadiens goalkeeper Jakub Dobes started the second flat game instead of the wounded Sam Montembeault and made 24 shots.
Strome defeated Christian Dvorak cleanly on the offensive zone face, and the disc jumped to Ovechkin, who opened an explosion from the edge of the right circle to cross the Dobes to open the goals in 9:40 of the first period.
The capitals doubled the advantage two minutes after a patient play by Pierre-Luc Dubois.
Placed behind the network, Dubois gradually exploded from Montreal to Cole Caufield, gradually exploding towards Chychrun to the right circle before wirling a nest oath. Chychrun skillfully accumulated Dobes from a sharp angle.
Dobes lost his stick during a spirit with a spirit, and Wilson made Washington to pay him by scoring 3:01 in the second period by 3:01 and 3-0. The target was the second in Wilson’s many games.
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