Washington was two wins away from tying the NHL record for consecutive road wins shared by Detroit in 2005-06 and Minnesota in 2014-15 which reached 12 road wins.
At the same time, there is good news about Alexander Washington’s Ovetchkin, who broke his calf on November 18.
He is with the team on this “road trip” and participated in the morning warm-up wearing a jersey that showed he was not allowed to be tackled. The Russian is expected to participate in the warm-up before Washington’s away game against Chicago on Wednesday night.
“The next step will be full training”
– Now he has started training with the group again, he travels with us. The next step for him will be to go from “untackleable” status to participating fully in training again, start receiving tackles and so on, says Capitals coach Spencer Carbery to the NHL.
Before the injury, Ovetchkin had scored 15 goals this season and with a total of 868 goals, he is approaching the legendary Wayne Gretzky’s “impossible” record of 894 goals.
Nine-game road trip for Ottawa
Speaking of away games, starting Wednesday morning Swedish time, Ottawa will begin a nine-game road trip starting against the Seattle Kraken. They will not play at home again until January 9.
However, the players will be allowed home to celebrate Christmas.
– It is always difficult to go west. Our goal is to win all the games, but we will see afterwards what the result will be and what we will take home for Christmas, says Ottawa’s Swedish goalkeeper Linus Ullmark according to Reuters.