More importantly, it was a first-period goal scored by the NHL's lowest-scoring team during the opening 20 minutes during the regular season. A series involving two of the NHL's top five teams on ...

NHL PLAYOFF BRACKET: 2025 schedule, times, scores, TV for second-round series Nylander gave Toronto a 1-0 lead 33 seconds into the first period, sneaking a wrist shot short side from the bottom of ...

That gave Ovechkin his 73rd and 74th career playoffs goals, moving him past Esa Tikkanen and tying him with Joe Pavelski for 13th overall in NHL history. Gretzky leads the way with 122 goals.

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Longtime captain Alex Ovechkin, the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer, opened the scoring at 9:12 of the first period, ripping a shot past Jakub Dobes after a Dylan Strome faceoff win.