from Isabelle Khurshudyan of the Washington Post,
Ovechkin entered the season with a streak of recording at least one shot on goal in every game since March 2013, and that came to an end earlier this month against the Detroit Red Wings. After going 315 straight games with at least one shot, he’s been held without one in three of his past seven games. Ovechkin has been shotless in a game just nine times in his career.
Ovechkin leads the team with 27 goals in 61 games this season, but is averaging the fewest shots per game (3.66) of his career, which continues to hint that the 31-year-old might be slowing down in his 12th season.
“Obviously, he’s a shooter; he’s got to get pucks to the net,” Coach Barry Trotz said after the game. ” … He’s a little off, a little bit off. Players will go through that. Ovi’s pretty streaky if you look in his past. It wouldn’t surprise me if he got 10 goals in the next five games. It’s how he operates. Sometimes, he’ll go a little bit flat there, so he’s just going through a little bit of a dry spell, I think.”
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