Laviolette updates Ovechkin injury, Kuznetsov and Samsonov benching originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington The Capitals pulled off an improbable 6-3 win over the New York Rangers on Monday without T.J. Oshie, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Justin Schultz, Ilya Samsonov and, after one shift, Alex Ovechkin. As good as the win was in the moment, the status for each player looms large with the Stanley Cup playoffs on the horizon. Ovechkin had missed the last four games with a lower-body injury. He took one shift of 39 seconds before coming out of the game on Monday.

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