Alex Ovechkin Makes History: Capitals Blank Senators 1-0 in OT as Ovechkin Nets NHL-Record 179th Goal trucc

The Washington Capitals shut out the Ottawa Senators by a score of 1-0 in overtime at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday to improve to 30-10-5 (.722 points percentage) this season and extend their winning-streak to three and point-streak to nine (6-0-3). Goaltender Logan Thompson made 25 saves in his second consecutive shutout.

The game was the first time that the two teams squared off since Washington traded Nick Jensen, who played parts of six seasons with the Capitals, and a 2026 third-round pick to Ottawa for Jakob Chychrun on July 1.

Washington’s Lines

Alex Ovechkin — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Aliaksei Protas
Connor McMichael — Dylan Strome — Tom Wilson
Taylor Raddysh – Lars Eller — Ethen Frank
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Andrew Mangiapane

Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy
Chychrun — Trevor Van Riemsdyk

Thompson
Hunter Shepard

• Scratched
  • LW Jakub Vrana
  • D Dylan McIlrath
  • D Alexander Alexeyev
• Injured
  • LW Sonny Milano (upper-body)
  • C Nicklas Backstrom (hip)
  • RW T.J. Oshie (back)
  • G Charlie Lindgren (lower-body)

Ottawa’s Lines

Brady Tkachuk — Josh Norris — Drake Batherson
Claude Giroux — Tim Stützle — Adam Gaudette
Nick Cousins – Shane Pinto — Ridly Greig
Matthew Highmore — Zack Ostapchuk — Zack MacEwen

Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub
Donovan Sebrango — Jensen
Tyler Kleven — Nikolas Matinpalo

Leevi Merilainen
Anton Forsberg

• Scratched
  • N/A
• Injured
  • LW David Perron (upper-body)
  • C Michael Amadio (upper-body)
  • G Linus Ullmark (back)
  • D Jacob Bernard-Docker (high ankle sprain)
  • D Travis Hamonic (lower-body)
  • LW Cole Reinhardt (upper-body)
  • C Noah Gregor (lower-body)
  • D Thomas Chabot (upper-body)

First Period

Scoring

• N/A

Stats

• 8-6 Ottawa in shots
• .727 Washington on faceoffs
• 8-7 Washington in hits
• 9-2 Washington in blocked shots
• 9-4 Washington in giveaways
• 2-0 Ottawa in takeaways

Graphs: Natural StatTrick

Second Period

Scoring

• N/A

Stats

• 17-11 Ottawa
  • including 9-5 in the second
• Ottawa did not score on three power plays through 40 minutes
• .579 Washington on faceoffs
• 17-15 Washington in hits
• 13-4 Washington in blocked shots
• 13-10 Washington in giveaways
• 5-1 Ottawa in takeaways

Third Period

Scoring

• N/A

Stats

• 23-21 Ottawa in shots
  • 11-6 Washington in third period
• .588 Washington on faceoffs
• Washington did not convert on their lone man advantage
• 23-18 Washington in hits
• 16-11 Washington in blocked shots
• 16-14 Washington in giveaways
• 5-2 Ottawa in takeaways

Overtime

• Scoring: 3:07, 1-0 Washington: Sandin flew into the offensive zone before dropping the puck at the blueline to Ovechkin, who roofed a wrister over the blocker of Meralainen. It marks Ovechkin’s NHL-record 27th career overtime goal and 179th goalie he has scored on. Ovechkin is now 21 goals from passing Wayne Gretzky for first all-time.

• Shots: 25-23 Washington, including 4-0 in overtime

Washington’s lead in the Metropolitan Division over the New Jersey Devils (with two games in hand) stayed at four points (with two games in hand). They are also 10 clear of the Carolina Hurricanes (with both teams having played 45 games).

Next game: Saturday vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (7 PM ET, Monumental Sports Network in-market, ESPN+ out-of-market).