Ovechkin did not score in the NHL game against Vancouver

Hockey club (HC) "Washington Capitals" in overtime defeated the Vancouver Canucks in the regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL) with a score of 2:1 on January 8. This is reported by the newspaper "Sport-Express".

Washington's Pierre-Luc Dubois scored a double. Vancouver's Conor Garland stood out.

Washington's captain and forward Alexander Ovechkin finished the game without points, while he made three shots.

"Washington" with 58 points in 41 games leads the Eastern Conference. "Vancouver" is eighth in the Western Conference with 46 points in 40 games.

A day earlier, the Buffalo Sabres defeated the Washington Capitals by shootout on January 6 in a regular season National Hockey League (NHL) match with a score of 4:3. Washington captain and forward Alexander Ovechkin scored no points.

Earlier, January 5, Russian hockey player and forward of the Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin rose to 12th place in the list of top scorers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Then it was reported that Ovechkin scored a puck in the regular season NHL match against the New York Rangers, thereby reducing the gap to Wayne Gretzky to 22 goals.

Prior to that, on January 3, Ovechkin scored his 871st puck in a game against the Minnesota Wild and cut the gap to Wayne Gretzky to 23 goals. However, this puck did not help "Washington" to win. The hockey player did not realize his shootout, and the club suffered a defeat with a score of 3:4.