{"id":480868,"date":"2024-03-23T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480868"},"modified":"2024-03-23T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T04:23:07","slug":"capitals-defeat-hurricanes-7-6-after-penalties-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/capitals-defeat-hurricanes-7-6-after-penalties-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals defeat Hurricanes 7-6 after penalties in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Milano recorded his 1<sup>st<\/sup> hat trick in the National Hockey League, Alex Ovechkin notched again, and the Washington Capitals ended the Carolina Hurricanes&#8217; winning streak at 5 with a 7-6 shootout triumph that could be crucial for their chances to make it to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin&#8217;s goal was the 846<sup>th<\/sup> since his debut in the league, as he notched for the 6<sup>th<\/sup> time in 4 matches to reach 24 this campaign, a series that has upped his chances of breaking Wayne Gretzky\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WEATHERED THE STORM!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CapsCanes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CapsCanes<\/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\/77dPH4rFTp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/77dPH4rFTp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1771363653427843266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John Carlson notched at the beginning of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter, Connor McMichael notched not long after that, and Dylan Strome converted the only penalty in a 5-round shootout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Could not have asked for a better time for Stromer to score his FIRST CAREER SHOOTOUT GOAL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/StA2o7Pp6p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/StA2o7Pp6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1771364902336143502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was 4<sup>th<\/sup> victory in 5 matches for Washington, who are now only 1 point behind the Red Wings for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and final wild-card spot in the East and 2 behind the Flyers for 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the Metropolitan. The Capitals have played 1 fewer match than either of those franchises, and their playoff chances are very high after the great series.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina will welcome the Maple Leafs at the end of the weekend, while Washington will host the Jets on the same day in Winnipeg\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> and final game of the team\u2019s road trip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3t_ALu8o1M?si=M0FqebAej66lcnkh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Milano recorded his 1st hat trick in the National Hockey League, Alex Ovechkin notched again, and the Washington Capitals ended the Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16742,17844,17091],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18391,17894,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Milano had a hat trick in his team\u2019s 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\/480868"}],"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=480868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480871,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480868\/revisions\/480871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480868"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480868"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}