Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals celebrates his overtime goal against the New York Islanders with teamate Mike Green #52 on January 19, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The Capitals defeated the Islanders 2-1 in overtime. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
In the first three meetings between these two teams, the Caps have won 2 and lost 1 in overtime, all three games were one goal games.
This will be their final meeting of the season, and since the days of Bossy there haven’t been many people looking forward to an Islanders games, but they have been turning heads of late beating some big teams in Detroit, Colorado, Phoenix and New Jersey and they are 7-3 in their last ten.
