{allcanada} Oilers score twice late, defeat Capitals in shootout

WASHINGTON -- Trailing by two goals in the final five minutes of regulation, the Edmonton Oilers came back to defeat the Washington Capitals 5-4 in a shootout at Verizon Center on Tuesday.

Derek Roy, Nikita Nikitin, Teddy Purcell and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for Edmonton (12-26-9). Viktor Fasth made 20 saves. Purcell scored the decisive shootout goal.

Alex Ovechkin, Jay Beagle and Nicklas Backstrom scored for Washington (24-13-9). Braden Holtby made 27 saves.

Purcell made it 4-3 with 4:11 left after the Oilers freed the puck from a scrum behind the net. Nugent-Hopkins tied the game with 1:07 remaining and Fasth pulled.

Ovechkin drove to the net early in the first period, drawing a penalty when Benoit Pouliot pulled him down. Ovechkin recovered, picking the top-right corner with a rising long-range slap shot at 1:48.

With Washington on the power play, Mike Green flinched before passing to Ovechkin, freezing Fasth and freeing enough space for Ovechkin to take a slap shot with enough force to shatter the lens of the camera inside Edmonton's net.

The goal at 13:58 gave Ovechkin his 92nd multigoal game in the NHL, one from tying Peter Bondra's Capitals record.

The Oilers, held without a shot on goal until 12:34, scored at 14:51. After Edmonton gained possession along the boards, Roy spun off Matt Niskanen as the two jostled in front and backhanded Nail Yakupov's blocked shot past Holtby's outstretched left leg for his fourth goal of the season.

Beagle's seventh goal of the season, scored on a tip-in of a John Carlson shot at 17:34, gave Washington a 3-1 first-period lead.

In the second period, Holtby stopped Nugent-Hopkins on a 2-on-1 with Taylor Hall, but did not save Nikitin's one-timer with :04 left. After Niskanen kneed Roy to set up an Oilers power play at 19:53, Edmonton quickly converted when Nugent-Hopkins won the ensuing faceoff.

Niskanen committed another penalty at 3:02 of the third period. Washington killed it and scored shortly after when Backstrom deflected Carlson's point shot past Fasth at 6:38.

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