Alex Ovechkin assisted on goals by Tom Wilson and Aliaksei Protas, Logan Thompson made 24 saves against his former team and the Washington Capitals ended the Vegas Golden Knights' season-opening winning streak at three with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday night.
Ovechkin, who is chasing Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goals record, became the 60th player in league history to record 700 assists. He has three assists through Washington's first two games of the season and remains 42 away from breaking Gretzky's mark.scored on his first shot in his return to the Capitals, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2018 when they beat Vegas in the final. Vrana made the team after attending camp on a tryout.
Thompson, another one of a handful of newcomers from an offseason of change, beat the Golden Knights after they traded him rather than give him a bigger role.Golden Knights: This was something of a schedule loss after playing at home Sunday night and getting no time to adjust to the Eastern Time Zone.Ovechkin joined Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagr, Marcel Dionne and Phil Esposito as the only six players with 700 goals and 700 assists.
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