It was simply a few minutes after the midway mark on the Backyard and Tom Wilson was a really indignant man and he was indignant at none aside from Matt Rempe after the Blueshirts’ folks hero had handled Alex Ovechkin badly, no less than to his Washington teammate’s style.
“He was yelling at me, ‘Don’t hit Ovie! Don’t do that to Ovie! Don’t hit Ovie!’ ” Rempe advised The Submit after the match had ended with a 3-2 extra time defeat to the Caps. “I told him I’d hit anyone I want.”
Wilson was a cheerful man after he had scored the winner from in entrance at 4:07 of additional time after a New York two-on-one went awry. Ovechkin was a cheerful man, too, after coming inside 9 targets of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL career-record 894 with a power-play rating to knot the match at 10:28 of the third.
However although the Rangers misplaced an necessary level, they gained one as nicely, even whereas falling out of the second wild-card spot by share factors to Ottawa. However they’re firmly within the combine in going 7-3-1 over their final 11 contests, and even now lurking over the third-place Devils’ shoulders, 5 factors again with a recreation in hand.
