Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin didn't get closer to breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time record on Thursday night, and his biggest moment came after the final horn. Following Washington’s 4–2 loss to the Minnesota Wild, the Capitals captain ran toward the tunnel and called his teammates back onto the ice to form a handshake line.

Andre Fleury was on the bench instead of in the net for the Capitals’ final game of the regular season against the Wild. “It was a pretty good battle out there between me and him,” Ovechkin said of their decadeslong rivalry that flatters both: Fleury won his third Stanley Cup in 2017 after he and Pittsburgh eliminated Ovechkin and Washington,