Logan Thompson made 32 saves for the Washington Capitals and the Nashville Predators lost 4-1 on home ice on Saturday.

Mangiapane made it 3-1 with 5:06 remaining, and Ovechkin scored career goal No. 873 with an empty-netter with 58 seconds left after blocking a shot and going the length of the ice. Ovechkin is 21 goals shy of tying Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career record.

Filip Forsberg scored again on the power play, but the Nashville Predators fell to the Washington Capitals by a 4-1 final on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. The result sees the Preds finish the season series with a pair of losses to the Caps.

Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist, Ethen Frank got his first NHL goal and the Washington Capitals beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Saturday night. Tom Wilson and Andrew Mangiapane also ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist, Ethen Frank got his first NHL goal and the Washington Capitals beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Saturday night. Tom Wilson and Andrew Mangiapane also scored for the Capitals. Logan Thompson stopped 32 shots as the Capitals won for the second time in three games.

Now, credit to the Washington defense. Out of 76 shots the Predators fired toward Thompson, only 33 found their way through and 28 were blocked. Ovechkin himself had two shot blocks.

Ethen Frank scored his first NHL goal to break a 1-1 tie in the third period and the visiting Washington Capitals went on to defeat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Saturday night.

Frank had his first NHL goal, Alex Ovechkin scored his 20th goal of the season and Logan Thompson and the defense came up big en route to an at times ugly, but important, 4-1 win over the Predators ... Nashville's 33. Thankfully for D.C., Andrew Mangiapane ...

NASHVILLE -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 873rd NHL goal and had an assist, and the Washington Capitals extended their point streak to seven games with a 4-1 win against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena on Saturday.

• Though the Preds still rank near the bottom of the NHL with an average of 2.63 goals per game, Nashville has scored a league-high 20 goals since the start of the win streak on Jan. 14. The same team that has scored two or fewer goals in 24 of 46 contests this season has won back-to-back games by scores of 6-2 and 7-5.

It's becoming an oddly familiar sight for the Nashville Predators ... "Tonight we made it too easy on them," Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. "An elongated shift and then we turned it ...

The Predators' comeback win over the Sharks was the largest comeback in franchise history. Nashville has overcome a three-goal deficit 13 times in franchise history — most recently on March 26, 2024 against the Vegas Golden Knights — but they had never overcome a four-goal deficit until Tuesday.