A pair of teams seeking to rebound from a loss in their previous outing will tangle at Enterprise Center in St. Louis on Saturday night. For the Caps, Saturday’s game is the second half of a set of back-to-backs; Washington’s seven-game home winning streak was halted at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night in DC.

Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Connor McMichael each scored two goals Saturday night, sparking the Capitals to an 8-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues.

Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Connor McMichael each scored two goals Saturday night, sparking the Capitals to an 8-1 victory against the St. Louis Blues. Ovechkin has scored 863 goals and is just 31 goals behind Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record 894.

First, the Caps struck in transition on a play that developed from their own line. Dylan Strome carried into St. Louis ice, sliding a feed to Aliaksei Protas on his right. Protas zipped it all the way across to Alex Ovechkin, who whipped a shot past Binnington for his ninth of the season at 7:42.