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      Capitals at Senators | Recap

      OTTAWA -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 876th NHL goal and the Washington Capitals lost 5-4 in overtime to the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday.

      Ovechkin, who is 19 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record (894), scored with a wrist shot from the left point on the power play to cut it to 4-3 at 13:01 of the third period.

      “When it was 4-2, we still believed we could come back,” Ovechkin said. “It’s a big point for us. Obviously, overtime and the shootout, it’s maybe 50-50. But, you know, we fight and battle. It was a good game.”

      Dylan Strome tied the game 90 seconds later, lifting a rebound over Anton Forsberg’s outstretched right pad at the edge of the crease to make it 4-4 at 14:31.

      “It’s nice to get back on the board,” Strome said. “I thought we had some good looks the last couple games on the road trips, it’s just that nothing was going in.”

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          The GR8 Chase: Ovechkin buries it on the power play for goal No. 876

          In overtime, Shane Pinto won a puck battle along the left boards in the Capitals’ zone and passed to Thomas Chabot, who skated in all alone and beat Charlie Lindgren with a wrist shot low blocker to win the game for Ottawa at 1:46. It was Chabot's 28th birthday.

          “Shane and I kept looking at each other and he was in the battle, battling for his life, and really I was by myself,” Chabot said. “He just had to put it anywhere in the slot and he did. And, you know what, just happy to score that goal to get us the two points.”

          Josh Norris had a goal and two assists, and Chabot, Pinto and Jake Sanderson each had a goal and an assist. Ridly Greig scored, and Forsberg made 31 saves for the Senators (27-20-4), who have won three straight.

          “We've shown that we can battle against any team in this league,” Chabot said. “And once again, I think that's another example. Last time they came here, it was a tight game all the way through and they won it in overtime 1-0, so we wanted to get it back from them, and we did it right from the start. I think there's some things we look back [on] and want to do better, but, at the end of the day, two points is two points, and you’ve got to focus on that and take the positive on how big of a win that was.”

          Ovechkin also had two assists, Strome scored twice, Connor McMichael had a goal and an assist, and Lindgren made 29 saves for the Capitals (34-11-6), who had won seven of their last eight games. Washington has just one regulation loss in its last 15 games (10-1-4).

          Ottawa was 2-for-5 on the power play; Washington was 2-for-6 and allowed two shorthanded goals in the second period.

          “Obviously, the power play was horrible tonight through two periods (0-for-4),” Strome said. “And we find a way to get two in the third and use it for momentum to get back in the game. But just too many turnovers and too many mistakes on the entry. Easy to clean up, which is good. It’s just, we didn’t have a lot of O zone time, so when we did get in there, we got two goals in the third.”

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              WSH@OTT: Chabot gives Senators the win in OT

              Greig gave the Senators a 1-0 lead at 4:08 of the second period. David Perron’s centering pass redirected in off of Greig’s skate at the edge of the crease. With the assist, Perron, who signed a two-year, $8 million contract with Ottawa on July 1, got his first point of the season in his 13th game with the Senators.

              McMichael tied it 1-1 at 7:43 when he skated in from the right corner alone and beat Forsberg over the glove with a curl-and-drag wrist shot.

              The Senators thought they had scored at 14:53 when Brady Tkachuk put in a rebound, but the Capitals challenged for goaltender interference and the call on the ice was overturned.

              Norris made it 2-1 when he beat Lindgren blocker side with a wrist shot on a shorthanded penalty shot. Ottawa scored its second shorthanded goal in 38 seconds to make it 3-1 when Pinto scored on a Norris rebound on the rush.

              “Just a good night for the boys all around,” Pinto said. “I think [it was] good to get the confidence up, you know, for the PP, and then obviously the PK. I think it’s been doing pretty well lately, and it’s just good to build on it, and a couple big goals.”

              Strome cut it to 3-2 at 7:58 of the third period with a wrist shot from the top of the right face-off circle on the power play.

              “I was really proud of the way we played, other than obviously some of the special teams stuff,” Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. “But 5-on-5, through the whole game, and then also the resiliency late in the third period, I thought we poured it on, especially in that last, whatever it was, 12 minutes, call it. I thought we had good opportunities to win that thing in regulation and get the fifth [goal]. So, a lot of positives, especially late in that game.”

              Sanderson’s point shot beat a heavily screened Lindgren on the power play to make it 4-2 at 10:38.

              “The more games you play in, that maybe aren't that crazy, but, they're tight games,” Norris said, “and there's not a ton of room out there, and whatever, if it’s a tie game or one-goal game, and you find a way to win those games, I think it gives you just a little bit of confidence and swagger, and just kind of has a compound effect. So, it's going well right now.”

              NOTES: With the primary assist on Sanderson’s goal, Claude Giroux got his 1,100th NHL point. … Norris and Pinto’s shorthanded goals 38 seconds apart marked the third-fastest shorthanded goals in franchise history behind Dec. 27, 2001 (0:34) and Jan. 27, 2020 (0:35). … Chabot is the first player in Senators history to score a game-winning goal on his birthday.

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