MOSCOW, Apr 13 Washington Capitals Hockey Players Defeat » Philadelphia Flyers» 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 9:2 (3:1, 2:0, 4:1) in favor of the owners of the site. As part of the winners, a double was scored by Lars Eller (27th and 46th minutes), Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin (7), TJ Oshie (12), Martin Fegervary (14), Conor Sheary (36), Matt Irvin (44), Garnet Hathaway (53) and Johan Larsson (58). Philadelphia scored James van Riemsdyk (12, 57). Ovechkin, opening the scoring, repeated Brett Hull's result in the number of NHL games in which he became the author of the first goal of the meeting (131). Both hockey players share the second place in this rating. The league record for this indicator is Jaromir Jagr (135). Ovechkin also chalked up an assist and took a clean 17th place in NHL history in terms of the number of games in which he scored a goal and an assist (396), beating Guy Lafleur. Another Russian Washington forward, Evgeny Kuznetsov, scored two goals assists, defender Dmitry Orlov did not take part in the match. Capitals goaltender Ilya Samsonov saved 19 of 21 shots. Philadelphia guard Ivan Provorov made one shot on target and held two power moves.
