{"id":54644,"date":"2025-10-18T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ovechkin-wakes-up-goal-898-and-capitals-secure-fourth-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:09:09","slug":"ovechkin-wakes-up-goal-898-and-capitals-secure-fourth-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/ovechkin-wakes-up-goal-898-and-capitals-secure-fourth-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin Wakes Up: Goal 898 and Capitals Secure Fourth Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 Alex Ovechkin has ended his brief drought. The countdown to another milestone in his career can begin again.\n\nOvechkin scored his first goal of the season on Friday night, leaving him two goals shy of 900 in his career and helping the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild.\n\nOvechkin was scoreless in the first four games of the season, a longer period than he experienced at any point last season, when he scored 44 goals and broke Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s NHL record with goal number 895.\n\nThat number is now 898, and it&#8217;s displayed on a counter above a corner of the ice in Washington.\n\n&#8220;The opportunities were there. Sometimes you just have to be patient,&#8221; Ovechkin said.\n\nWith the Capitals up 2-1 in the third period, Dylan Strome won a face-off against Ovechkin, who shot the puck wide of the left post.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Obviously, we try that play quite a bit, and when it works, it looks great. It doesn&#8217;t always work. It was one of those where it just fell right into the right spot,&#8221; Strome said.<\/p><cite>Dylan Strome<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe Capitals lost their first game, but have won four in a row since then, and have only allowed three goals at 5-on-5 all season. On Friday, they outshot Minnesota 45-14 in a dominant performance.\n\nThe shot count was 24-7 after two periods, but Washington only led 2-1 before Ovechkin gave the Capitals their first multiple-goal lead of the night.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Everything we were doing in the third period was exactly in line with how we want to play. The structure, the guys were making good decisions, rotating the lines. It was probably our most impressive period given the situation,&#8221; said coach Spencer Carbery.<\/p><cite>Spencer Carbery<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Alex Ovechkin has ended his brief drought. The countdown to another milestone in his career can begin again. Ovechkin scored his first goal of the season on Friday night, leaving him two goals shy of 900 in his career and helping the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild. Ovechkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1288,2020,454,1059],"class_list":{"0":"post-54644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nhl","7":"tag-alex-ovechkin","8":"tag-goal","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-washington-capitals"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}