The team captain's third-period goal also broke a new NHL record. The Capitals announced, "Ovechkin scores his fifth goal of the playoffs to cut the deficit to 3-2. With the goal, Ovechkin passed Mario Lemieux (76) for the 12th-most playoff goals in NHL history.

Ovechkin has zero points through the first three games of the Capitals' second-round series with the Hurricanes.

Alex Ovechkin missed a practice day, but his coach insists that he's ready for the Game 5 that they need to win. He played hard and accounted for just one goal in this series. Ovechkin is known to produce pressure games,