MOSCOW, Jan 23 National Hockey League (NHL) club captain Washington “Alexander Ovechkin said that he sees nothing funny in the absence of goals in the first two periods of the match with Ottawa. The meeting ended with the victory of the capital team in overtime with a score of 3:2. By the third period, the team was trailing by two goals, and Washington was able to move the game into overtime thanks to Ovechkin's double. Niklas Backstrom scored the decisive goal. «Of course, we knew it would be a tough game,» Ovechkin was quoted as saying by the Russian version of the NHL website. «We foresaw that they would play power hockey. This is a young, fast team. In the second period, their goalkeeper made amazing saves. It's not fun that we didn't score after two periods. We just had to work hard and try to find a way to score. The fact that we turned the game is important for us from a mental point of view. We have a lot of injuries, but they should not be an excuse for us. We just need to score points in every game. «» How would I describe Backstrom's goal? I call these «sexy goals,» the forward added. his calculation on top players, to which he ranks Ovechkin and Russian forward Yevgeny Kuznetsov, was justified. «The score on the scoreboard said that we played poorly, but in fact everything was fine, we just could not score,» said the specialist. — In such situations, when it is necessary for the team to break through, I count on our top players. It should be Ovi (Ovechkin), Becky (Backstrom), Tom (Wilson), Kuzi (Kuznetsov). And they did it.»
