2023-10-25 01:35:00
Four starting matches of the season – 0 goals. Such statistics performed by Alexander Ovechkin worried absolutely everyone. Has Ovi aged? Is his shot not the same anymore? Doesn’t he have Wayne Gretzky’s record? After another dry game once morest Montreal, Alexander the Great tried to calm the fans, but this was not enough:
“I’m trying to get out of this situation. I have to do my job. I need to do everything in my power. I think the match once morest Montreal was Washington’s best this season. Yes, we lost, but we created scoring chances throughout all three periods. This is a good sign”.
There weren’t even enough words of support for the Russian sniper from Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery:
“To be honest, I don’t think anything is bothering him. You’d think that would be the case, but I haven’t seen one instance where I’ve seen him get frustrated, that something is starting to weigh on him a little bit. He had plenty of opportunities to hit the spots where you usually see him. The pucks don’t go in, but it’s only a matter of time. If he continues to find himself in those spots, they will go in.”
Everyone needed goals, and therefore the home match between Washington and Toronto, which took place on the night of October 25, Moscow time, was especially anticipated. It just started with problems for Ovechkin. Already in the first period, he fought so actively on the heel that his head hit the crossbar! It seemed that health problems were inevitable, but Ovi cannot be called the “Russian machine that does not break down” – he got up and continued the game. Only the goal scored by Stolichny in this episode was canceled by the referees – Ovi was found to have interfered with the goalkeeper.
As a result, Washington lost the opening twenty minutes with a score of 0:1, and following the break, Alexander the Great’s torment continued. He himself earned the right to a shootout and did not take it himself – he tried to shoot Joseph Wall with an awkward shot, but the trick did not work, and the drought continued.
Here, as luck would have it, the Maple Leafs were in full swing – three goals in 10 minutes looked like a real death sentence for the home team. In their current state, they are definitely not capable of leaving the score 0:4.
But then THIS happened! At the very end of the second period of the game, Washington earned a power play; defender John Carlson drew a perfect pass to the far post, from where Alexander Ovechkin once once more rewrote the history of hockey America. We fix:
— Ovi’s first goal in his 19th season in the strongest overseas league
– the 300th goal of a Russian striker in the power play – so many in NHL no one has
– Alexander’s 823rd goal in the regular season – 71 accurate shots before Wayne Gretzky!
Washington lost 1:4, but few people cared. The main thing is that Ovechkin broke through! Now the greatest sniper of our time should be doing just fine.
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