Chychrun scores his 11th goal of the season as the Capitals beat the Bruins 3-1 – Boston News, Weather, Sports

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jakob Chychrun scored his eleventh aim of the season to tie for essentially the most amongst NHL defensemen, and the Washington Capitals beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Tuesday.

Chychrun matched Colorado’s Cale Makar and Columbus’ Zach Werenski. The pending unrestricted free agent is off to a productive begin in his contract yr, with 25 factors in 32 video games.

Aliaksei Protas scored twice, together with an empty-net aim to seal it with .89 seconds left, and Logan Thompson made 26 saves for the Capitals, who bounced again from a 4-2 defeat Sunday at Detroit. That they had extra pictures within the first 22 minutes than of their complete recreation at Boston on Dec. 23, after they had a season-low 11 and misplaced 4-1.

Justin Brazeau scored for the Bruins 81 seconds in off an sudden carom off the boards after which Thompson. Jeremy Swayman completed with 24 saves.

Washington defenseman Martin Fehervary left within the third interval after taking an inadvertent persist with the face from teammate Tom Wilson.

Takeaways

Bruins: Didn’t have their greatest effort within the first of three consecutive video games on the street and couldn’t benefit from a fortuitous bounce early.

Capitals: Received regardless of Alex Ovechkin’s goal-scoring streak ending at 4. Ovechkin had one in every of his first two video games again from a damaged left leg and likewise scored twice on Nov. 18 earlier than getting injured and had a hat trick on Nov. 17.

Key second

With the Bruins urgent with simply over seven minutes left, Thompson made a collection of saves on high-quality scoring possibilities to maintain the Capitals forward. He did the identical with a giant cease with 16.1 seconds left and Boston skating 6 on 5.