Washington Falls to Rangers as Shesterkin Records Assist

Moscow, March 15 – Hockey players “New York Rangers” defeated the “Washington Capitals” in the match of the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The meeting, which took place in New York, ended with a score of 5: 3 (3: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1) in favor of the site owners. As part of the winners, Mika Zibanejad scored a double (5 and 15 minutes), Patrick Kane (19), Jacob Trueba (25) and Jimmy Vesey (58) scored another puck. And “Washington” Nicholas Opp-Coppel (15), Matt Irwin (33) and Nick Dowd (52) scored.

Forwards of the Russian “Rangers” Artemy Panarin and Vladimir Tarasenko made one pass. And Igor Shesterkin, the goalkeeper of the Blueshirts, saved 28 shots out of 31, scored an assist and became the third star of the meeting.

The Russian striker and captain of the “Washington” team, Alexander Ovechkin, was absent from the match due to a lower body injury. “Capitals” Evgeny Kuznetsov did not score any points. Defender of the “capital” Alexander Alekseev made five shots on goal and made two pulls.