WASHINGTON — Nick Foligno scored in the sixth round of the shootout to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night.
The Capitals fell to 0-5 in shootouts this season. Sonny Milano gave them a brief lead when he scored in the fifth round, but former Capitals forward Andre Burakovsky equalized for the Hawks. Then Jakob Chychrun failed to score for the Capitals and Foligno ended it.
Ryan Donato and Teuvo Teräväinen scored for the Hawks in regulation, and Dylan Strome and Ryan Leonard scored for the Capitals. Leonard tied it with 8:42 left in the third period.
The Capitals lost forward Tom Wilson, who was named to the Canadian Olympic team earlier this week, in the first period with an apparent leg injury. They were also without forward Aliaksei Protas due to a lower body injury.
The Hawks have won back-to-back games for the first time since mid-November. The Capitals collected points in 13 of 14 games from November 15 to December 11, but are just 3-6-2 since then.
It was the first meeting between the teams since April 4, when Alex Ovechkin scored twice to tie Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record of 894 goals.
Donato opened the scoring just 73 seconds into the first period when he deflected a shot from Ilya Mikheyev. Strome responded by putting away a rebound on an Ethen Frank shot.
Teräväinen turned the puck over sprawling goaltender Logan Thompson on a second-period power play to take a 2-1 lead.
