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Ovechkin nets goals #300 and 301 at Capital One Arena
Alex Ovechkin scored a pair of goals in the Capitals’ 5-1 win over the Sabres in Washington. Those were the 300th and 301st goals that Ovechkin has scored in regular-season play at Capital One Arena. He’s the 10th player in NHL history to score 300 or more regular-season goals at one venue and one of six players to do so in the expansion era. The other players who scored 300-plus goals in one building since 1967-68 are Mario Lemieux (373 goals at Civic Arena, later Mellon Arena), Steve Yzerman (330 at Joe Louis Arena), Wayne Gretzky (327 at Northlands Coliseum), Mike Bossy (316 at Nassau Coliseum) and Guy Lafleur (306 at Montreal Forum).
Laine, in 2nd season, reaches 30 goals again
Patrik Laine scored his 30th and 31st goals of the season in the Jets’ 5-3 win in Dallas. Laine scored 36 goals last season, his first in the NHL, putting him second among rookies behind the Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews (40 goals). The only other active players who scored at least 30 goals in each of their first two NHL seasons are Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin and Artemi Panarin.
Dadonov’s 3rd goal of game is a winner
Evgenii Dadonov completed the first hat trick of his NHL career when he scored the tiebreaking goal at 18:07 of the third period, boosting the Panthers to a 6-5 win over the Penguins. Dadonov’s hat trick was the third this season by a Panthers player. (Radim Vrbata and Vincent Trocheck produced the other three-goal games.) That’s as many hat tricks as the Panthers had over the previous five seasons combined (one in 2012-13 and two in 2016-17). This is the first season in which Florida players have earned as many as three hat tricks since they had four in 2009-10 (one each by Steve Reinprecht, Stephen Weiss, Nathan Horton and Radek Dvorak).
Zetterberg’s 100th power play goal is game-winner
Henrik Zetterberg’s first power play goal this season proved to be the game-winner for the Red Wings in their 3-1 victory against the Hurricanes. It was the 100th power play goal for Zetterberg in a 15-season NHL career spent entirely with Detroit. Only seven other active NHL players have scored 100 or more power play goals for their current team: Alex Ovechkin, Daniel Sedin, Evgeni Malkin, Steven Stamkos, Sidney Crosby, Joe Pavelski and Corey Perry.
Point gets 25th goal, then lifts Lightning in shootout
Brayden Point scored once in regulation time and then was the only player to score in the shootout by which the Lightning copped a 4-3 win in Montreal. Point, who finished with 18 goals for Tampa Bay as a rookie last season, has scored 25 this season, second on the team to Nikita Kucherov (33 goals). Point’s goal total stands third among NHL “sophomores” this season (i.e., players who were rookies in 2016-17 but not in 2017-18), behind Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine (31) and Toronto’s Auston Matthews (28).
Patrick’s 4th straight game scoring a goal
Nolan Patrick extended his goal streak to four games when he scored for the Flyers in the third period of their 5-3 win in Ottawa. Patrick’s four-game goal streak matches the high for a rookie in the NHL this season. Canucks rookie Brock Boeser has had two four-game goal streaks this season (Nov. 16-22 and Dec. 19-28) and Devils rookie Nico Hischier put together a four-game streak earlier this month (Feb. 13-18). The 19-year-old Patrick is the second teenager in Flyers history to produce a goal streak of at least four games; Sean Couturier was also 19 years old when he scored in five straight games in January 2012.
Marner’s 3rd game with at least 4 points this season
Mitch Marner contributed a goal and three assists as the Maple Leafs tied a franchise record with their ninth consecutive home win, a 4-3 victory over the Bruins. It was the third time that Marner has racked up at least four points in a game this season. He produced four points versus Carolina on December 19 and five against Ottawa on February 10. Marner is the first Toronto player to register four or more points in a game at least three times in one season since Doug Gilmour tied a franchise record with five such games in 1993-94.
Anderson’s goal makes the difference
Josh Anderson’s goal with 8:46 left to play in the third period was the game-winning goal in the Blue Jackets’ 3-2 victory over the Blackhawks. Anderson leads Columbus with 18 goals this season. The Blue Jackets are one of the three NHL teams that have not had a player score 20 or more goals for them this season. The others are the Coyotes (rookie Clayton Keller leads the club with 17 goals) and the Senators (Mark Stone leads with 19 goals).
Palmieri 2, Islanders 1
Kyle Palmieri’s two third-period goals enabled the Devils to overcome a 1-0 deficit and beat the Islanders, 2-1, in Newark. Over the last ten seasons, the only other time a player had a multiple-goal game in which he scored every goal for the Devils in a New Jersey victory was on Oct. 18, 2016, when Taylor Hall scored twice in a 2-1 win on home ice against the Ducks. Hall assisted on both of Palmieiri’s goals in Saturday’s game.
Gillies: 3 wins in 3 NHL starts
Flames rookie Jon Gillies earned his third win in three starts in the NHL, a 5-1 victory over the Avalanche in Calgary. Gillies, whose first NHL start was a win for the Flames in Los Angeles on April 6 last year, didn’t make his second start until Thursday, when he won in Arizona. The only other goaltender to win the first three starts of his NHL career while playing for the Flames is the man who served as the backup for Gillies in Saturday’s game, David Rittich, who did that earlier this season (winning on Nov. 25 at Colorado, Dec. 7 at Montreal and Dec. 17 at Vancouver). The only goaltender to win his first three starts for the Flames after making starts for other NHL teams was Yves Belanger in 1977-78. Belanger, who joined the Atlanta Flames after making 45 starts for the Blues, won his first four starts with the Flames.
Raanta’s turnaround continues
Antti Raanta delivered his second shutout of the season as the Coyotes blanked the Ducks, 2-0. Raanta, acquired by Arizona in a trade with the Rangers last June, was 6-12-5 with a 2.64 GAA in his first 25 games this season, but he’s 7-3-1 with a 2.10 GAA in 12 games since then.
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