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01/23 23:18 CST Hendrix Lapierre ends 90-game goal drought in Capitals' 3-1 win
over Flames
Hendrix Lapierre ends 90-game goal drought in Capitals' 3-1 win over Flames
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) --- Hendrix Lapierre ended a 90-game goal drought, Alex
Ovechkin had an empty-netter and the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary
Flames 3-1 on Friday night to end a four-game losing streak.
Aliaksei Protas also scored and Logan Thompson made 25 saves against his
hometown town.
Morgan Frost scored for Calgary, and Devin Cooley stopped 35 shots. In the
third, Cooley denied defenseman Jacob Chychrun's lacrosse-style wraparound
attempt on a power play.
Protas broke a tie at 7:35 of the third. When Cooley slid to his left to defend
against Tom Wilson, a rebound squirted out to the Belarusian, who fired the
puck into an open net.
Lapierre tied it at 1 at 6:33 of the second. John Carlson's shot deflected off
the leg of Yan Kuznetsov and onto Lapierre's stick for the 23-year-old's first
goal since March 18, 2024, which also happened to be against Calgary. He has 10
career goals,
Calgary countered a Washington short-handed, odd-man rush with a power-play
goal on the Flames' next trip down the ice. Frost bear Thompson with a wrist
shot below the goalie's outstretched stick at 6:09 of the first.
Up next Capitals: At Edmonton on Saturday night. Flames: Host Anaheim on Sunday night. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl |
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