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03/27 01:55 CDT Ovechkin's 34th career hat trick powers Capitals past Mammoth,
7-4
Ovechkin's 34th career hat trick powers Capitals past Mammoth, 7-4
By JOHN COON
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) --- Alex Ovechkin had his 34th career hat trick, Ivan
Miroshnichenko scored twice, and the Washington Capitals beat the Utah Mammoth
7-4 on Thursday night to snap a two-game losing streak.
Anthony Beauvillier and Rasmus Sandin also scored for the Capitals, while Logan
Thompson made 35 stops for Washington, which scored four unanswered goals after
falling behind 3-1.
Ovechkin now has the fourth most hat tricks in NHL history and set a league
record with a hat trick against his 21st different team.
Dylan Guenther scored twice for Utah. Logan Cooley and MacKenzie Weegar added a
goal apiece and Vitek Vanecek made 17 saves for the Mammoth, who have dropped
six of their last seven games at home.
Miroshnichenko's first goal of the season at the 2:07 mark of the first period
gave the Capitals the early lead. Jakob Chychrun sent the puck back to a
trailing Miroshnichenko and he scored on a long-distance slap shot.
Guenther scored on a power play with 6:56 left in the first off a feed from
Clayton Keller to make it 1-1. Guenther put Utah ahead with 3:01 remaining,
threading in a perfectly timed backhander also set up by Keller.
Cooley extended the lead with 5.4 seconds left in the first with a power-play
goal.
Ovechkin erased the deficit in the second. He scored his first at the 5:01 mark
of the period when he tipped in a puck in traffic and equalized with 8:32 left
in the second, chipping the puck under the crossbar.
Beauvillier's tip-in put Washington ahead 4-3 at the 2:43 mark of the third.
Sandin made it a two-goal lead at 6:02 when he caught Vanecek out of position
and threaded the puck between two defenders.
Weegar pulled Utah back within one just two minutes later, but Miroshnichenko
restored a two-goal lead at the 9:54 mark.
Ovechkin completed the hat trick with an empty-netter with 5.2 seconds left.
Up next Capitals: at Vegas on Saturday. Mammoth: at Los Angeles on Saturday. ___ This story has been updated to correct that Ovechkin has 34 career hat tricks, not 29 ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl
Up next Capitals: at Vegas on Saturday. Mammoth: at Los Angeles on Saturday. ___ This story has been updated to correct that Ovechkin has 34 career hat tricks, not 29 ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl
