Ovechkin didn't score once in the NHL game against Buffalo

Hockey club (HC) Buffalo Sabres defeated the Washington Capitals in the regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL) with a score of 4:3 on January 6 on a shootout. This is reported by the newspaper "Sport-Express".

The winners scored pucks John-Jason Peterka (5th minute), Alex Tuck (22), Tage Thompson (33), at the expense of Peterka realization of the winning shootout. Tom Wilson (7 and 32) and Alexei Protas (56) scored for the visitors.

Washington's captain and forward Alexander Ovechkin finished the game without points.

"Buffalo" interrupted its three-match losing streak and with 35 points in 41 games takes the last place in the Eastern Conference. "Washington" is in first place with 56 points in 40 games. For Ovechkin's team, this defeat is the second in 2025.

Earlier, January 5, Russian hockey player and forward of the Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin rose to 12th place in the list of top scorers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Then it was reported that Ovechkin scored a puck in the regular season NHL match against the New York Rangers, thereby reducing the gap to Wayne Gretzky to 22 goals.

Prior to that, on January 3, Ovechkin scored his 871st puck in a game against the Minnesota Wild and cut the gap to Wayne Gretzky to 23 goals. However, this puck did not help "Washington" to win. The hockey player did not realize his shootout, and the club suffered a defeat with a score of 3:4.