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Richard Panik, Chandler Stephenson, Jakub Vrana
and Tom Wilson also each scored a goal as Washington came up
with at least one in each of the three periods.
Goalie Braden Holtby made 32 saves and improved to 10-0-1 in his
past 11 starts. He has won seven in a row.
The Capitals now are 13-1-2 in their past 16 games, and they
improved to 7-1-1 in the month of November. Also, they've won
two in a row since losing to Montreal at home on Friday, the
team's lone loss this month.
Panik gave Washington an early lead with his first goal as a
member of the Capitals -- and it came 50 seconds into the
contest.
He took a quick pass from Travis Boyd and fired a high shot past
goalie John Gibson from the left circle.
The Caps took control with two goals in the second period, from
Ovechkin and Stephenson, for a 3-0 lead. Ovechkin's goal came on
a power play at 6:39 of the period from the left circle.
Evgeny Kuznetsov set up the play by threading a perfect pass to
Ovechkin through traffic from the right side.
Washington made it 3-0 on the Stephenson goal with 34 seconds
left in the second period. He took a pass from Garnet Hathaway
and beat Gibson from between the circles.
After making the pass, Hathaway then jumped into a brawl that
took the officials several minutes to control and figure out. He
came away with a match penalty as seven penalties were handed
out overall. There even was some question about if the goal
would stand up, but eventually it did.
Vrana scored his goal in the third period before Sam Steel and
Nicolas Deslauriers got goals for the Ducks that cut the margin
to 4-2. Wilson's empty-net goal locked it up for Washington with
1:11 remaining.
--Field Level Media
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