Alex Ovechkin scored three times to lead the Washington Capitals to a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers at Capital One Arena, ending the Cats four-game winning streak.
It was Ovechkin’s 28th career hat trick, tied for sixth-most in NHL history, and first of this season.
Jonathan Huberdeau opened the scoring with 32 seconds left in the first period, cashing in after the Capitals had a Keystone Cops sequence and turned over the puck exiting their zone. Huberdeau broke in on Ilya Samsonov and slipped the puck between his pads on the backhand.