Ovechkin scoring another game-winning goal for the Capitals comes as no surprise to the Predators

Alex Ovechkin scored his 130th profession game-winning extremity to support his basking streak going, nan Washington Capitals winning and nan Nashville Predators losing

WASHINGTON -- Alex Ovechkin scoring to hand nan Nashville Predators different defeat and support his Washington Capitals rolling was not astonishing to nan folks connected nan different broadside who person seen him a batch complete nan years.

“You knew it was coming,” said Predators coach Andrew Brunette, whose last 7 seasons arsenic a subordinate overlapped pinch Ovechkin's first 7 successful nan NHL. "You’re connected nan chair and I conjecture I’ve seen him excessively galore times. I’ve played against him, I’ve coached against him, I’ve watched him and he conscionable finds that and erstwhile it’s connected his instrumentality it’s gone.

"That’s a big-time changeable from evidently arguably nan top goal-scorer of each time.”

Ovechkin is now six distant from breaking Jaromir Jagr's grounds for nan astir profession game-winning goals. His 130th helped nan Capitals amended to 9-3-0 this play and sent nan Predators to their ninth nonaccomplishment successful 13 games.

“It (stinks) that he scored against america coming and sewage nan game-winner, but a feline that is still producing astatine this property is impressive,” said Predators guardant Steven Stamkos, who played his first 16 years successful nan convention pinch Tampa Bay. “To support doing it astatine this property is very impressive.”

Ovechkin has six goals successful his past 5 games to scope 861 for his career. He's 34 distant from breaking Wayne Gretzky's profession people that for decades had seemed unapproachable.

Washington's longtime skipper besides became conscionable nan 3rd subordinate property 39 aliases older to people successful 5 aliases much consecutive games, aft Johnny Bucyk successful 1974 and Brett Hull successful 2003.

“He’s going to spell down arsenic nan feline pinch nan astir goals ever astatine immoderate constituent here,” Stamkos said. “He’s conscionable a generational extremity scorer and a feline that I’ve ever looked up to successful position of really he scores goals. It’s nan hardest point to do successful nan NHL is people and he’s recovered a measurement to do it amended than — soon — anyone ever.”

Ovechkin besides continued his streak of scoring each crippled nan Capitals deterioration their achromatic “Screaming Eagle” jersey, connected this juncture nan first clip successful this, their 50th season. The subordinate known arsenic nan “Great Eight” is now 8 for 8 successful this uniform.

“I don’t cognize nan stats, but I emotion this jersey," Ovechkin said. "Fans emotion it, truthful it’s beautiful cool.”

Ovechkin group up Aliaksei Protas earlier successful nan game, too, and has 8 goals and 8 assists.

“I’m ever having fun," Ovechkin said. "But erstwhile you're winning games, erstwhile you're producing opportunities to person a chance to people goals, it’s ever nosy to play.”

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