The Washington Capitals snapped their season-long four-game losing streak Sunday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time — or against a more ideal opponent.
T.J. Oshie scored the go-ahead goal as Washington came back to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3, putting the Capitals ahead of their archrivals for first place in the Metropolitan Division.
Tom Wilson scored on a 4-on-4 breakaway early in the third to tie the game 2-2, and former Penguin Carl Hagelin punched in a Lars Eller rebound three minutes later. But Evgeni Malkin responded with a nutmeg through John Carlson’s legs to set up his own game-tying goal.