Controversial finish at MSG after Georgiev throws his stick at Ovechkin.

The afternoon games in the National Hockey League on Sunday provided both entertainment as well as a fair bit of controversy.

One of those afternoon games featured a match up between the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers, a match up that also happened to be a hotly contested game between the two sides. After 60 minutes of play both sides remained all tied up at a score of 2 - 2 and that set up the framework for the controversial finish to the game we would see later on.

Overtime was not enough to determine a winner either and as is tradition during the regular season that meant that both teams went to the shoot out to determine a winner. Funnily enough the first 3 rounds of the shoot out were also not enough to determine a winner which meant each team had to start sending out additional players to take the penalty shots. Eventually the player selected by Washington to take the next shot was none other than Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin which of course only added to the magnitude of the moment due to Ovechkin's star power.

The veteran forward made his move on young New York Rangers backup goaltender Alexandar Georgiev and it looked like he had the keeper fooled on the play, but Georgiev took matters into his own hands and was having none of it. He instead toss his goaltender's paddle at the puck and successfully managed to get it off of Ovechkin's stick, putting an end to his scoring attempt. 

Both Ovechkin and the Capitals were irate and and immediately began to protest what was an obvious violation of the rules on the part of Georgiev. This resulted in a conference on the ice from the National Hockey League's officials overseeing the game, but surprisingly after conferring for several seconds they game back and ruled that there would be no goal on the play. 

As the officials attempted to explain things to the Capitals bench a call came down from the National Hockey League's control center and it became clear rather quickly that their ruling was about to be overturned. As per NHL rules the Capitals and Ovechkin were awarded a goal on the play, ending a grueling game between both sides in rather strange fashion.

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