Wilson helps Capitals rally late at hand Sharks ninth straight loss to open season

Tom Wilson scored the tiebreaking purpose late within the third interval and the Washington Capitals beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on Sunday for his or her third straight win.

Dylan Strome and Evgeny Kuznetsov additionally scored, Alex Ovechkin had two assists, and the Capitals have their longest win streak since additionally successful three straight final December. Darcy Kuemper stopped 30 photographs.

“We started to build our game as the game went on, they came out, obviously worked really hard. You felt our game building, gaining more control of the game… a lot of confidence in this group,” Kuemper stated. “Just keep doing the right things and we’d get rewarded like we did.”

Luke Kunin scored for San Jose and Mackenzie Blackwood completed with 39 saves. The Sharks fell to 0-7-2 and have misplaced 15 straight relationship again to final season.

“There’s a lot of good things to come out of tonight. You look at the record and the way we lost tonight, giving up a goal with about five minutes to go, it’s deflating … but it’s a long, long season,” Sharks head coach David Quinn stated.

San Jose got here out with urgency and piled on the strain to begin the sport after being shut out of their earlier two outings. Kunin lastly ended the Sharks‘ 163-minute, 10-second scoreless streak, crashing the web and burying a rebound on the left put up to open the scoring at 11:40 of the primary interval. It marked the seventh time in eight video games that Washington gave up the primary purpose.

Sharks defenseman Ty Emerson received his first NHL level on the play.

Strome’s shot via visitors tied the rating at 2:18 of the third. Strome is now on a three-game goal-scoring streak and leads Washington with six objectives. Capitals defenseman Hardy Häman Aktell had an help for his first profession level.

“I felt like it was only a matter of time. I think everyone had that belief in here,” Strome stated. We had a bunch of probabilities… Coach (Spencer Carbery) stated we have been gonna get three within the third, and we received three within the third.”

Wilson put the Capitals forward with 4:45 remaining as he crashed the web despatched a shot off Sharks defenseman Kyle Burroughs and in. It was Wilson‘s second of the season and gave him 300 factors for his profession. It additionally prolonged his level streak to 4 video games.

“The puck was kind of bouncing everywhere, so you just try and get it towards the net,” Wilson stated. “Got to make your breaks a little bit in that type of game, desperate team coming in and we worked hard and stuck with it and got it done, got a bounce finally and got it done.”

Kuznetsov capped the scoring with an empty-netter with 58 seconds to go.

UP NEXT

Sharks: Return residence to host Vancouver on Thursday evening.

Capitals: Host the New York Islanders on Thursday evening.