In Toronto, Alex Ovechkin scored the last two goals of the game in a 4-3 overtime win for the Washington Capitals over the Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
The game-winner came on the power play.
“My job is to shoot the puck and create and score for my team, and obviously the boys know if I’m wide open, I’m there,” Ovechkin said. “If guys play close to me, different guys are open, so it’s why we’ve built our chemistry and find ways to score lots of goals.”
Braden Holtby made 27 saves in the win.
“You have to believe in what you’re doing, and you have to believe that you’re never out of a game,” Washington coach Todd Reirden said. “There’s adversity, but it’s just focusing on us trying to maximize each shift and let’s hope enough things go our way and sure enough they were for this road trip. It was a pretty amazing road trip when you look back at it and now it’s important we take some of this momentum from this trip home with us.”
Auston Matthews got in on the two-goal action and Andreas Johnsson added a single marker for the Leafs.
“We needed to find a way to win the game,” Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. “I thought we got through it when we got through the (first) kill in overtime, and then we took another one there on the high stick. It’s unfortunate because I thought we’d done a real nice job on the penalty kill (in overtime).”
John Carlson kicked in the other two goals for the Caps.
“It was a successful trip, but the biggest thing now is to refocus because coming home after a long trip, you can kind of get a little relaxed when you get back,” Holtby said. “But we did what we needed to do here, so now it’s time to go home and keep moving forward.”
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Frederik Andersen made 30 saves in the loss.
The cash challenged Maple Leafs may be seeing a path to dumping salaries if this continues.
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