Alex Ovechkin began the night becoming celebrated for what he's best at. He ended it doing something much more rare.

Ovechkin scored his 701st Full Color Iron On Stickers goal mins after getting honored for 700 and added the shootout winner to help the Washington Capitals beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 Tuesday because of their second consecutive success. It was just Ovechkin's 34th shootout goal in 107 tries over his NHL career.

So can the Capitals. Ovechkin's 14th shootout champion salvaged a win after they blew a 3-0 lead. It all came following a pregame ceremony honoring Ovechkin for being the eighth member of the 700-goal club and during friend Ilya Kovalchuk's Washington debut.

The events of the evening seemed to spark the Capitals' four Russian skaters. Evgeny Kuznetsov create Ovechkin's goal with a move from behind the net, Dmitry Orlov recorded his first multiassist game of the season and Kovalchuk got one of the best scoring possibilities of the night when he was denied by Winnipeg goaltender Laurent Brossoit.

But after a strange sequence got the Jets on the board late in the second New York Mets Jersey Number Letter Kits on a goal by Nikolaj Ehlers, a turnover by Disney Iron On Transfers Kovalchuk paved the way for Kyle Connor's breakaway objective in the third.

Then, with three minutes left, Indicate Scheifele went around Orlov, and the puck went in off Orlov's skate to make it 3-3. That was enough to find the Jets to overtime and earn them an important point in a competitive Western Conference playoff race.

The Capitals won two in a row for the first time in nearly a month and in the process were able to pad their lead atop the Metropolitan Division.

Goaltender Braden Holtby was a big part of that. He made 33 saves in regulation and OT and three more in the shootout, which allowed his teammates to breathe and hope to learn something from an inconsistent efficiency.