Caps trip up Flyers in exhibition finale

Alex Ovechkin netted a pair of power-play goals and Eric Fehr added two tallies, as Washington downed Philadelphia, 6- 3, in preseason action Friday night at Verizon Center.

Tom Wilson and Mathieu Perreault also lit the lamp for the Capitals, who take on the Blackhawks Saturday in their exhibition finale, and then begin the season at Chicago on Tuesday.

Michal Neuvirth stopped 32 shots for the win.

Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds and Scott Hartnell scored in the second period for the Flyers, who open up their regular season by hosting Toronto next Wednesday.

Ray Emery allowed five goals on 35 shots in the setback, leaving Philadelphia 1-5-1 in its seven-game September tune-ups.

The Flyers and Capitals won't meet until November 1 in Philadelphia, playing against each other for the first time as division rivals since the end of the 1997-98 season when both clubs were in the original Atlantic Division.

Wilson snuck behind Braydon Coburn at the right post to tap home a Mikhail Grabovski feed for a 3-0 Caps edge at 11:41 of the middle frame, but the visitors snapped to attention with three in a row before the buzzer.

First, Giroux beat Neuvirth between the arm and body off a one-timer from Matt Read at 14:05, Hartnell stayed glued to the left post to tap in a Sean Couturier feed on a power play 77 seconds later, and Simmonds tied it with 1:10 left when he was credited with the poke in the crease that got through a mass of bodies.

Fehr beat Emery from the left side on his own rebound 1:35 into the third, Ovechkin ripped a one-timer on the advantage at 4:13 and Perreault hit the empty net to seal it.