{"id":479381,"date":"2024-03-01T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479381"},"modified":"2024-03-01T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:12:10","slug":"capitals-notch-5-unanswered-goals-to-defeat-flyers-5-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/capitals-notch-5-unanswered-goals-to-defeat-flyers-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals notch 5 unanswered goals to defeat Flyers 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ovechkin notched his 839th career goal and helped set up John Carlson&#8217;s go-ahead goal, and the Washington Capitals won against the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, in an important win for their postseason chances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Friday Night&#39;s alright<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CapsFlyers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CapsFlyers<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLCAPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ALLCAPS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BE431pNpaJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BE431pNpaJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1763759771667087635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NHL franchise from the USA Capital moved 4 points back of Philadelphia for 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the Metropolitan Division and also sit 5 back of Tampa Bay for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and final wild card in the East. Capitals triumphed in 5 in their past 7 matches and are fighting to make it to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin&#8217;s 17th goal since the beginning of the campaign started the comeback from down 2-0 after 1 period. Sonny Milano evened it, and Carlson notched on a wraparound as part of a huge 2nd period for the home team that decided the clash and could have a crucial role in the playoff picture at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Mantha and Dylan Strome notched in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period to secure the Capitals victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Capitals have scored a power-play goal in four-straight games and in seven of their last eight games. Since Feb. 8, the Capitals have converted on 11 of 28 power-play opportunities (39.3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1763750293567684640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia will host the Senators tomorrow, while Washington will welcome the Coyotes on Sunday in another huge match to keep its postseason hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xW66GvkAYQ?si=uJuWY4Kf0Gg19Z4t\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ovechkin notched his 839th career goal and helped set up John Carlson&#8217;s go-ahead goal, and the Washington Capitals won against the Philadelphia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16717,17091],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17891,17894,6811],"acf":{"announce":"It was a huge victory for Washington's playoff hopes.","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\/479381"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479384,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479381\/revisions\/479384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}