RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals traded timely goals and big hits for 60 minutes, then needed overtime and a shootout Friday to decide their game at PNC Arena.
Alex Ovechkin finally won it for the Caps, scoring the only shootout goal for a 4-3 victory in the Metropolitan Division game. Ovechkin, shooting third, beat Antti Raanta for the victory after the Caps’ Ilya Samsonov stopped the Canes’ Vincent Trocheck, Andrei Svechnikov and Seth Jarvis.
The Caps tied the score 3-3 on an Ovechkin power-play score at 14:56 of the third after Trocheck took an offensive-zone penalty for interference. The Caps won the faceoff and Ovechkin, quiet most of the first 55 minutes, quickly unloaded for his 39th of the season.