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on Tuesday announced the completion of the regular season in the National hockey League. The season will resume immediately with a series of playoffs, which will be attended by 24 club. The timing of the matches for the Stanley Cup has not yet named.

At the end of the regular season the captain “Washington” Alexander Ovechkin will share the prize of “the Maurice Richard Trophy” which is awarded to the best sniper of the regular season, with the Czech striker “Boston” by David Pastrnak. Both players for 48 goals.

This is not the first case in the NHL, when the award was divided between the two players. In the 2003/04 season, the Russian Ilya Kovalchuk shared the prize with Jerome Iginla and Rick Nash (41 washer). In the 2009/10 season were Steven Stamkos and Sidney Crosby (51 on goal).