For the first time since January 2014, Alex Ovechkin will miss consecutive games because of injury.
Washington Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said Ovechkin, the team’s leading goal scorer, would miss Tuesday night’s contest against the New York Islanders with a lower-body injury that also held him out of Saturday’s game.
Ovechkin suffered the injury late in the third period of Washington’s win against New York on Thursday. He hasn’t practiced, either, although he did skate before Monday’s practice. Ovechkin had missed four games earlier this season because he was on the coronavirus protocol list.
Laviolette also ruled out defenseman Justin Schultz for Tuesday’s game.