{"id":473723,"date":"2023-12-22T04:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473723"},"modified":"2023-12-22T04:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T08:28:31","slug":"ovechkin-ends-15-game-drought-to-grant-3-2-win-over-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ovechkin-ends-15-game-drought-to-grant-3-2-win-over-blue-jackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin ends 15-game drought to grant 3-2 win over Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just 53 seconds remaining in overtime on Thursday night, Alex Ovechkin ended his 15-game goal drought, securing a 3-2 victory for the Washington Capitals over the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin&#8217;s 828th career goal was netted during a 4-on-3 Capitals power play, a result of a roughing call against Columbus goaltender Elvis Merzlikins with 2:18 left in overtime. This goal marked Ovechkin&#8217;s 26th overtime goal, extending his NHL record, and his 125th game-winner overall, ranking second in NHL history, just behind Jaromir Jagr&#8217;s 135.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the Capitals&#8217; success, Anthony Mantha scored twice, and Charlie Lindgren made 34 saves, helping the team secure their third consecutive win. John Carlson played a pivotal role with three assists. On the opposing side, Cole Sillinger and Yegor Chinakhov scored for the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9SAXvVnZM8?si=LoOcJHN1tf2EdoIi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just 53 seconds remaining in overtime on Thursday night, Alex Ovechkin ended his 15-game goal drought, securing a 3-2 victory for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473727,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17524,16870,17091],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[21754,17874,17894],"acf":{"announce":"He scored with just 53 seconds left on the clock in overtime to push Capitals to the victory ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473733,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473723\/revisions\/473733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473723"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473723"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}