It was a hockey game,” the center said with a smile after notching three points in Washington’s back-and-forth 7-4 victory. Strome scored late in the first period to end an eight-game goal drought and added two primary assists,

Dylan Strome had a goal and two assists, Alex Ovechkin added his 872nd career goal and the Washington Capitals earned a 7-4 victory against the visiting New York Rangers on Saturday.

For most of the last five weeks, the Caps have been engaged in low-scoring, tight-checking contests. But on Saturday afternoon against the New York Rangers at Capital One Arena, the Caps turned the clock back to their high-scoring ways of October and November,