Marc Gatcomb reached a milestone by scoring two goals in a game for the first time in his young career as the New York Islanders defeated the Washington Capitals 4-1 on an otherwise uneventful afternoon on Long Island.
The Isles pick up another pair of what are almost certainly too-little, too-late points in their longshot wild card chase, while the Capitals failed to clinch a Metropolitan Division title that will inevitably be theirs in a few more days anyway.
Oh, crap, wait, there was one other thing: You probably didn’t hear anything about this ahead of time, but Alex Ovechkin scored the lone Capitals goal, on a power play and from his office but not on his patented one-timer, to pass Wayne Gretzky and claim the NHL all-time regular season goals (895) record.