slap shot

“Russian Machine never breaks,” Ovechkin once said, after limping off the ice courtesy of a slap shot to the foot.

They were 28 seconds away from winning when Evan Bouchard blasted a slap shot by Kuemper from just inside the blue line, capping a wild third-period rally.

Bouchard doubled the lead six minutes later, firing a slap shot past Kuemper from the top of the circles three seconds after the Kings’ Andrei Kuzmenko went off for interference.

Necas doubled the advantage with a one-timed slap shot from the slot after Kampf won a faceoff 16 seconds later.

Kubalik tied it at 7:48 on a rebound after a slap shot by Necas from the blue line.