WASHINGTON -- When Alex Ovechkin doesn’t score a goal in his first four games of a season, that usually leads to questions about what’s wrong.

That comes with the territory when you’re the NHL’s all-time leading goal-scorer.

No one on the Washington Capitals, though, including Ovechkin, seemed too worried that the puck wasn’t going to start going in for him eventually. That too is a product of Ovechkin’s track record for finding a way to score for more than two decades now.

So, when Ovechkin did get his first goal of the season -- and the 898th of his career -- in the Capitals’ 5-1 victory against the Minnesota Wild at Capital One Arena on Friday, it felt mostly like back to business as usual for the 40-year-old left wing.

“If it was I did not have any chances, it [would be] kind

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