Aliaksei Protas had the first round of the hat of his NHL career and Alex Ovechkin and Pierre-Luc Dubois each had three points while Washington's capital prolonged their sequence of victories to five, beating the Ducks 7-4 Tuesday evening.
Ovechkin remains nine goals through Wayne Gretzky's career brand in the NHL of 894, but raised three assists. Dubois had a goal and two assists.
Frank Vatrano of Anaheim, Drew Helleson and Pavel Mintyukov each had a goal and a assist. Jacob Trouba scored his first goal as a duck, ending a drought of 94 games overall, when he equaled 1-1 to only 4:51 of the first period. The defender's last goal before Tuesday was for the New York Rangers on January 4, 2024 against Chicago.
Vatrano won his third consecutive season with 20 goals.
The score was tied at 4-4 before the capital marked three times in the 6:35 finals. Nic Dowd had the goal at 1:25 p.m. Anthony Beauvillier gave Washington a certain breathing room with 1:36 to play before Protas – which has the fifth multi -butt effort in its last 37 games – completed the hat round with an empty goal with 17 seconds.
Dylan Strome added a goal and Logan Thompson stopped 25 shots. Tom Wilson and Brandon Duhaime both collected two assists.
The recruit of Ducks, Sam Colangelo, had his end of the four game sequence.
During his Bobblehead evening, Leo Carlsson had a decisive pass on the goal of Helleon in the first period and exceeded Trevor Zegras for the third plus points by a duck player aged 20 or less. Carlsson, the second overall choice of the NHL 2023 draft, has 58 points (26 goals, 32 assists) in 81 games.
Capitals face the Kings on Thursday while the Ducks are at UTAH on Wednesday.
