Just a few minutes into the yard, Tom Wilson was extremely angry and he wasn't mad at Matt Lempe after the blues shirt folk hero treated Alex Ovechkin badly to the tastes of his Washington teammates.
“He was screaming at me, 'Don't hit Obie! Don't do that to Ovie! Don't hit Obie!” Lempe told the post after the match ended with a 3-2 overtime loss to the cap. “I told him I hit someone I wanted.”
Wilson was a happy man after New York failed 2-1, then grabbed the winner from before with an extra time of 4:07. Ovechkin was also a happy man. After falling into nine goals for Wayne Gretzky's highest ever NHL career record 894, he tied the match at 10:28, the third on a power play score.
However, the Rangers lost key points, but they also scored one as well, even if they fell from the second wildcard spot in one point increments to Ottawa. However, they were firmly in the mix by going 7-3-1 in the past 11 contests, and still lurking on the shoulders of the third-placed demon.
