MOSCOW, Apr 7 Washington Capitals Hockey Players Beat Tampa -Bay Lightning» in the regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL). The meeting, which took place in the US capital, ended with a score of 4:3 (3:2, 1:0, 0:1) in favor of the owners of the site. As part of the winners, a double was scored by John Carlson (8th and 37th minutes), Martin Fehervary (6) and Russian striker Alexander Ovechkin scored one more puck each. Russian Nikita Kucherov (9), Nick Paul (17) and Ross Colton (58) scored goals for Tampa. Ovechkin also scored an assist and scored 1,401 points in his NHL career. The author of two assists in the match was another Russian forward “Washington” Evgeny Kuznetsov. Defender Dmitry Orlov scored no points. Capitals goaltender Ilya Samsonov saved 25 of 28 shots. Tampa's defenseman Mikhail Sergachev made four shots on target, had three power moves and scored an assist. Lightning goalie Andrey Vasilevsky made 24 saves. In a parallel match of the NHL championship, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Winnipeg Jets (3:1).
