A heavyweight brawl between Boston Bruins' Jeffrey Viel and Washington Capitals' Dylan McIlrath nearly upstaged Alex Ovechkin’s march toward NHL history on Tuesday night at TD Garden. The Bruins and Capitals had already traded goals when the two veterans dropped the gloves late in the second period,

The 5-1 win for Carolina included 142 combined minutes of penalties — 122 of which came in the third period — including two fights and six misconducts.

During one fight in the third period, Hurricanes defenseman Jalen Chatfield and Capitals center Connor McMichael dropped their gloves and went at it. The two exchanged punches before Chatfield pulled off a dangerous maneuver which ended up in him slamming a helmet-less McMichael to the ice.

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin made history on Sunday, scoring the 895th goal of his career and becoming the NHL’s all-time leading goal-scorer, surpassing Wayne Gretzky. The goal came on a one-timer during a second-period power play at UBS Arena against the New York Islanders,

The New York Islanders, despite recently slipping in the standings, fought well Friday at UBS Arena and eventually picked up two hard earned points by defeating the Minnesota Wild 3-1.

Alex Ovechkin pulled within four goals of setting the NHL goal-scoring mark, but it was third-period tallies by Dylan Strome and Tom Wilson that sent Boston to defeat.