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Ovechkin’s best match in three years! Sent a hat-trick to Minnesota in 12 minutes

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1 week ago

December 16, 2025

Jon

Ovechkin’s best match in three years! Sent a hat-trick to Minnesota in 12 minutes

Alexander Ovechkin and Washington hockey players / Photo: © Drew Hallowell / Stringer / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru

Alexander’s brilliant game against the Wild.

In the last match against Winnipeg (1:5), Washington’s impressive streak was interrupted – the team scored points in nine meetings. Despite their consistent results, the Capitals have lost their lead in the East to the Islanders and Carolina, which currently leads the conference. Spencer Carbery’s team will play their next game away against Minnesota.

The focus on the ice at the Grand Casino Arena will be the duel of outstanding Russian hockey players – Alexander Ovechkin and Kirill Kaprizov. Ovechkin is the absolute record holder for goals scored in the NHL regular season, and Kaprizov recently rose to second place in the number of goals scored in Wild history. So we should expect a goal shootout from them.

When the “savages” did not have a star of Kirill’s level, the team had great difficulty coping with Ovechkin. In one of these meetings, Alexander almost single-handedly dealt with his opponent.

Ovechkin’s best match in three years

It’s hard to believe, but even the Washington captain had fairly long stretches without a hat-trick. Before the match with Minnesota, which took place on February 11, 2016, the Russian had not scored three goals in a game for almost three years. And after the first period ended 0-0, it was hard to believe that Alexander would achieve this sniper feat.

However, after the break, it was Ovechkin who opened the scoring. After a tricky diagonal pass from TJ Oshie, the captain of the capital club tried to complete the attack with one touch, and although the shot didn’t really work out, the puck went between Devan Dubnyk’s pads and ended up in the net – 1:0. It took the Russian forward a little more than three minutes to score a double.

This time, defender John Carlson tested the strength of the front board with a powerful flick, and Alexander reacted with lightning speed to the rebound and hit the empty corner. Everything happened so quickly that Dubnyk did not have time to react and press against the post. Ovechkin was close to a natural hat-trick, but this achievement was deprived of him by Charlie Coyle, who reduced the gap to a minimum in the middle of the period.

True, the Russian leader of Washington still scored another goal against Minnesota. At the same time, he managed to score before the break: the striker won the fight on the spot against several opponents at once and from close range again spoiled the Wild goalkeeper’s statistics. This was Ovechkin’s first hat-trick since December 10, 2013!

As Ovechkin admitted, the reason for the sniper surge was parents.

“In fact, my parents called me and said: “It’s time for you to score a hat-trick.” It’s a nice feeling! Of course, when you score the second goal, it’s cool, but when you score three goals in one game, it’s something special,” Ovechkin said.

Alexander spent almost 12 minutes on three goals. In the final period, Ryan Suter converted the majority and reduced the gap to a minimum. Just when the Wild players believed in a comeback, Jason Chimera slightly cooled the opponents’ ardor. Mikael Granlund, of course, hit Braden Holtby’s goal, but did it too late – four seconds before the siren. In the end, thanks to Ovechkin’s hat-trick, Washington won 4:3.

Source: Sportbox

Jon

I’m a sports enthusiast and journalist who has worked in the news industry for over 8 years. I currently work as an author at Sportish and my work focuses mainly on sports news.

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Return and victory. Kremenchuk and Sokol played a Christmas match

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21 hours ago

December 24, 2025

Robert

Return and victory. Kremenchuk and Sokol played a Christmas match

A leaders’ match took place as part of the Ukrainian Hockey Championship – the current champion Kremenchuk hosted Sokol as part of the festive meeting at Christmas.

The match ended with Kremenchuk scoring 4:1, and the match was abandoned twice due to air raids.

At the same time, the home team lost 0:1, but they scored two goals on the power play in the second period and eventually hit an empty net. Vitaly Lyalka scored a double goal.

While Sokol finishes 2025 as the leader, Kremenchuk is one point behind and has a game in hand.

Ukrainian Hockey Championship

Kremenchuk – Sokol 4:1 (0:1, 2:0, 2:0)

Discs: 02:48 Mazur (Timchenko, Cherdak) – 0:1, 27:09 Lyalka (Matusevich, Krivoshapkin – large) – 1:1, 28:40 Andryushchenko (Krivenko – large) – 2:1, 59:03 Lyalka – 3:1, 59:10 Poperzhay (Gevorgyan) – 4:1

Goalkeepers: Zakharchenko – Petrov (Makarenko)

Source: Sport UA

Robert

I have been working as a sports journalist for about 6 years now. I currently work as an author at Sportish, which is a sports news website. I mainly cover sports news and I love writing about all aspects of the sport. I also have experience working as a broadcast journalist, so I have some great insights into how sport is reported and presented.

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With the strengthening of the composition. Storm scored 8 goals in the derby

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2 days ago

December 23, 2025

Robert

With the strengthening of the composition. Storm scored 8 goals in the derby

The Ukrainian hockey championship match took place between Storm and Odeshchina. The meeting ended with a score of 8:3 in Storm’s favor.

It should also be said that the team, which had major problems in its squad and regularly played with 12-13 hockey players, received important reinforcements from Dnepr. Five new artists appeared in the application of Odessa residents and brought immediate results.

Newcomers Laktionov, Chupryna and Deliy scored two points each.

The teams have 17 points and share 3-4 places.

Ukrainian Hockey Championship

Storm – Odeshchina 8:3 (2:0, 3:2, 3:1)

Discs: 11:28 Chuprina (Laktionov, Stotsky) – 1:0, 15:10 Mosyuk (Trushchenko, Poimanov) – 2:0, 24:06 Ponomarev (Ratushny) – 3:0, 24:40 Khanin – 3:1, 25:12 Dvornik (Bechtold) – 3:2, 31:58 Ruzhitsky (Laktionov) – 4:2, 34:05 Laktionov (Deliy, Chuprina) – 5:2, 42:19 Deliy (Derkach, Chuprina) – 6:2, 44:22 Reyuka (Poimanov, Ratushny) – 7:2, 52:30 Tailor (Kutsevich) – 8:2, 57:40 Hear -8:3

Source: Sport UA

Robert

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Junior World Hockey Championship. Calendar and match results

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2 days ago

December 23, 2025

Robert

Junior World Hockey Championship. Calendar and match results

Traditionally, one of the most interesting hockey tournaments of the year begins – the U-20 World Junior Championship in the elite league. The tournament will take place in the USA from December 26 to January 5.

The American team will defend the title it won in Canada a year ago. However, Maple will try to heal herself after the failure.

The teams are divided into two groups of 5 teams, the top 4 will advance to the play-offs and the last two will compete for survival among the elite.

Group A: USA, Sweden, Slovakia, Switzerland, Germany

Group B: Finland, Czech Republic, Canada, Latvia, Denmark

Calendar

Group A

26 December

Sweden – Slovakia. Starts at 20:00

27 December

Germany – USA. Starts at 01:00

Slovakia – Germany. Starts at 21:00

28 December