the American club “Washington capitals” defeated “Carolina Hurricanes” in the regular championship of the National hockey League. The meeting took place in the Role on “Pee-EN-si arena” and ended with the score 4:3 in favor of “capital”.

a Decisive role in the victory of “Washington” was played by the Russian legionaries: Evgeny Kuznetsov scored one goal with one successful transmission, Alexander Ovechkin and Dmitry Orlov made one assist, and goalie Ilya Samsonov was the author of 38 of the reflected shots. In addition to Kuznetsova for the “KEPS” scored Lars eller, Richard Panik, Jakub Vrana.

In the “Carolina” is also not without Russian “interference”: two assists to his partners gave Andrei Svechnikov. After his assists were scored by Jordan Staal and Teuvo Teravainen, another goal of the asset Ryan Dzingel.

after the match all three stars goes to the Russians: Kuznetsov named the third player of the game, the title of the second star went to Svechnikova, and the first star recognized as Samsonov.

For the “Washington” this victory was the second in the previous five games. Hockey players from capital of the United States continue to lead the Eastern conference with 61 points. “Carolina” is 50 points is on the sixth line of the same East.