Washington Capitals famous person Alex Ovechkin was off to a sluggish begin this season, scoring simply three targets in his first 15 video games. It was not solely a sluggish begin, it was one of many slowest begins of his profession and maybe beginning some concern as as to whether or not father time was lastly catching as much as him.
The previous week or so is exhibiting that’s not the case.
That features Thursday’s 8-4 win over the Montreal Canadiens the place Ovechkin recorded his first hat trick of the season and the thirty third of his profession.
Alex Ovechkin getting on a roll for Capitals
Along with his hat trick on Thursday, Ovechkin is now as much as 10 targets in 21 video games this season, together with seven in his previous six video games. That features a four-game goal-scoring streak.
That streak additionally brings him again to a 39-goal tempo over an 82-game season, which stays a completely bonkers quantity for a 40-year-old participant.
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