Washington’a Alex Ovechkin is chased by Vincent Trocheck of the Hurricanes during Friday’s game in Raleigh, N.C. Karl B DeBlaker/Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Alex Ovechkin tied the game late in the third period and scored the winner in a shootout as the Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Friday night.
Evgeny Kuznetsov and John Carlson also scored in regulation for Washington, which has an eight-game point streak. Ilya Samsonov made 16 saves before denying all three Carolina tries in the tiebreaker.
Ovechkin was the last Washington shooter and put the puck past goalie Antti Raanta.
Rookie center Seth Jarvis scored twice for his first multigoal game and Vincent Trocheck had the other goal for the Hurricanes, who have lost three in a row. Raanta stopped 37 shots.
The Hurricanes extended their home-ice point streak to 14 games, leaving them one shy of the franchise record.
The Capitals outshot the Hurricanes 40-20, including 4-1 in overtime.
SENATORS 3, FLYERS 1: Josh Norris broke a tie on a power play midway through the third period, Anton Forsberg made 27 saves and Ottawa won at home.
Norris beat Martin Jones with a slap shot to help Ottawa snap a three-game losing streak.
Tim Stutzle opened the scoring for Ottawa in the first period. Alex Formento iced it with a short-hander into an empty net from behind his own goal line with 2:38 left.
Cam Atkinson scored for Philadelphia in the second period. Jones made 32 saves.
Stutzle scored midway through the first with a rocket of a shot from the faceoff dot that went over Jones’ shoulder, hit the middle bar inside the net and shot out just as quickly as it had gone in.
Atkinson tied it at 6:10 of the second, tipping a point shot over Forsberg’s shoulder.
One night after playing his 1,000th NHL game, Flyers captain Claude Giroux stayed home in Philadelphia. The 34-year-old forward is expected to be traded before the trade deadline.
NOTES
TRADE: The two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning acquired forward Brandon Hagel from the Chicago Blackhawks for two players and two first-round draft picks.
Hagel, 23, has a career-high 21 goals and 16 assists in 55 games this season. He’s under contract through the 2023-24 season.
Tampa Bay sent 2023 and 2024 first-round picks and young forwards Taylor Raddysh and Boris Katchouk to Chicago for Hagel and fourth-rounders this year and in 2024.
Hagel had nine goals and 15 assists in 52 games last season, and the Blackhawks rewarded him in August with a $4.5 million, three-year contract.
Tampa Bay is taking on that entire salary, using the cap space saved by sending Raddysh and Katchouk to Chicago.
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