MONTREAL (AP) — Andrew Mangiapane scored the go-ahead goal with just under four minutes remaining, Brandon Duhaime had two goals and Logan Thompson made 16 saves to lead the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday night for a 3-1 lead in the first-round series.
The teams head back to Washington, where the Capitals won the first two games, for Game 5 on Wednesday night.
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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) makes a save against Washington Capitals' Connor McMichael (24) during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens' Christian Dvorak (28) and Washington Capitals' Andrew Mangiapane (88) battle by the boards during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) stops a shot by Washington Capitals' Anthony Beauvillier (72) during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson, right, watches Montreal Canadiens' Josh Anderson (17) and Capitals' John Carlson (74) vie for the puck during the first period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens' Kaiden Guhle, bottom, is checked by Washington Capitals' Brandon Duhaime (22) during the first period of an NHL hockey playoff game in Montreal on Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Dylan Strome (17) celebrates after his goal against the Montreal Canadiens during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Dylan Strome (17) celebrates his goal over the Montreal Canadiens during the second period of an NHL playoff game in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) stops a shot as Washington Capitals' Andrew Mangiapane (88) comes in for a rebound during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin (8) celebrates as teammate Andrew Mangiapane (88) scores against Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) during the third period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Dylan Strome had a goal and assist and Tom Wilson also scored for the Capitals.
“The building is erupting, you’re going to deal with that if you’re going to win a playoff series, you’re going to have to overcome adversity," Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. “That was a prime example tonight of us being able to do that.”
Juraj Slafkovsky and Cole Caufield scored for Montreal. Ivan Demidov and Lane Hutson each had two assists. Jakub Dobes made 21 saves.
“It’s a resilient group and we knew we had to win a game there, so we’re going to do that,” Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. “We’ll keep extending this series.”
Mangiapane picked up a drop pass at the blue line and beat Dobes on the glove side as Washington rallied from a 2-1 deficit entering the third period.
Thompson returned to the lineup and had a strong game after exiting with an injury late in Game 3. Teammate Dylan Strome crashed into his goaltender on Montreal’s fifth goal Friday, and Thompson needed to be helped off the ice.
Dobes was making his first career playoff start. The 23-year-old from Czechia replaced injured starter Sam Montembeault midway through the second period in Game 2. Montembeault is considered day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
The Canadiens defeated the Capitals 6-3 in a chaotic Game 3 — the first playoff game at the sold out Bell Centre since 2017 — in a matchup that included a bench brawl and both starting goalies sustaining injuries.
Duhaime tied it at 2 at 6:39 of the third period after a couple fortunate bounces on his shot at the side of the net. The goal followed a massive hit by Wilson on defenseman Alexandre Carrier, who later left the game.
“Completely changed the momentum in the game,” Carbery said. “Everybody in here knows how impactful he is, how unique he is."
Slafkovsky tied it on a power play at 10:33 of the second, finishing a feed from Demidov and a secondary assist from Hutson.
Caufield made it 2-1 at 18:32 with another power-play goal, beating Thompson on a one-timer.
After a sloppy first period, Strome capitalized on a couple of Canadiens mistakes and opened the scoring 1:25 into the second.
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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) makes a save against Washington Capitals' Connor McMichael (24) during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens' Christian Dvorak (28) and Washington Capitals' Andrew Mangiapane (88) battle by the boards during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) stops a shot by Washington Capitals' Anthony Beauvillier (72) during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson, right, watches Montreal Canadiens' Josh Anderson (17) and Capitals' John Carlson (74) vie for the puck during the first period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens' Kaiden Guhle, bottom, is checked by Washington Capitals' Brandon Duhaime (22) during the first period of an NHL hockey playoff game in Montreal on Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Dylan Strome (17) celebrates after his goal against the Montreal Canadiens during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Dylan Strome (17) celebrates his goal over the Montreal Canadiens during the second period of an NHL playoff game in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) stops a shot as Washington Capitals' Andrew Mangiapane (88) comes in for a rebound during the second period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin (8) celebrates as teammate Andrew Mangiapane (88) scores against Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes (75) during the third period of Game 4 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Montreal, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
CHICAGO (AP) — A day after former presidents, sitting governors and local Chicago residents alike attended a vibrant, televised celebration for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the family and friends who knew him best hosted a more intimate gathering Saturday to grieve the civil rights leader at his organization’s headquarters.
The private memorial service at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s headquarters on the South Side of Chicago includes only a few hundred attendees, most of whom are family members, allies and confidants. The homegoing is meant as a capstone to a week of services held across the country.
“I foresee tomorrow will represent everything that Rev. Jackson stood for,” the Rev. Chauncey D. Brown, a pastor to a Chicago-area church and mentee of Jackson's, said Friday.. “It will include dignitaries and icons, as well as many from where the true power lies, with the people in the streets.”
Some members of the public who gathered outside the PUSH headquarters were allowed to enter the chamber.
“Over the last two weeks, we’ve been focusing on connecting to people that Reverend worked with across the years,” said Rev. Janette Wilson, a longtime senior advisor to Jackson and executive director at Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “When you look at his work, it is so vast in the economic and political arenas.”
Since his death last month, Jackson’s family and allies have honored the late reverend with commemorations, community service and demonstrations they say continue his work.
Mourners were first allowed public visitations at the Rainbow PUSH headquarters in February, giving Jackson's longtime neighbors a chance to say goodbye to the civil rights leader.
The late reverend then lay in state at the South Carolina Capitol. Jackson grew up in segregated Greenville, South Carolina. As a high schooler, he led fellow students into a protest that desegregated a local library, starting a lifetime of civil rights activism.
Services honoring Jackson in Washington, D.C., were postponed after a request for him to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol was denied. House Republican leadership cited the precedent that only former presidents and senior generals regularly receive the privilege.
Jackson's mentees also honored his legacy by organizing on issues such as voting rights, economic inequality and political organizing in the weeks after his passing. Rainbow PUSH hosted a forum for community organizers and clergy whom Jackson mentored to discuss his impact on their careers.
Wilson said that the best way to honor Jackson is to continue advocating for progressive, inclusive solutions to the pressing economic and political challenges of the day. She cited policies that addressed the impending socioeconomic effects of artificial intelligence, improved public schools and a focus on youth mental health as areas he was contemplative on at the end of his life.
She also said that Jackson never shied away from being political.
“We’re in a global moment where peace in the world is in jeopardy, where we just have bombs being dropped carelessly, killing children, innocent victims of political actions,” said Wilson of the ongoing war in the Middle East. “When the government cuts SNAP benefits and you have millions of children and families who will be food insecure, I think you have to tell them that we’re fighting for you.”
On Thursday, the headquarters also hosted a series of events that celebrated Jackson's life ahead of the public celebration. Hundreds of members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity gathered at the headquarters to honor Jackson.
Jackson's life “is a dream fulfilled," said Michael Barksdale Jr., one of the fraternity brothers who honored Jackson. A Chicago public school counselor who first met Jackson as a high school freshman, Barksdale said the PUSH Coalition awarded him a college scholarship after he worked as one of the group's local youth organizers.
“It is up to my generation now to continue that legacy of Jackson and all the civil rights dignitaries who came before,” said Barksdale, 37. “They did all of the heavy lifting, and we are going to continue to build.”
That same night, the chamber hosted a reunion for Rainbow PUSH alumni to commemorate the late reverend and his years of activism. The group included state and local lawmakers, academics, longtime organizers and former diplomats.
Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, paid her respects alongside longtime veterans of the organization who supported Jackson throughout his life. Braun, who served as a volunteer on Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, was supported by Jackson in her successful 1992 election.
They celebrated Jackson’s life and reminisced about his dual presidential bids; his globe-trotting activism as an anti-apartheid activist and hostage negotiator; and his evangelism for a Christianity that emphasized justice for all and support for the downtrodden.
The headquarters also greeted nearly 100 progressive activists from Minnesota. The assembled groups represented civil, labor and immigrants’ rights groups who were recently thrust into the national spotlight after President Donald Trump's administration's enhanced immigration enforcement operation in the state sparked protests.
“It’s really empowering, at least for me, to see the coalition coming together and to understand the history of civil rights and human rights and immigrants’ rights,” said Yeng Her, the organizing director at the Immigrant Defense Network, one of the organizations that has protested the Trump administration in Minnesota.
The Jackson family invited the activists to Chicago to learn more about Jackson's strategies and find resources for their own organizations. Organizers met Rainbow PUSH alumni and some of Jackson's children.
The gathering was a prelude to both the private service for Jackson's family and another commemoration.
On Sunday, members of the Jackson family and many of Jackson's mentees will travel to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the “Bloody Sunday” protest marches when civil rights activists were beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.
Jackson himself often attended the same anniversary march.
“Reverend always thought three-dimensionally,” said Jimmy Coleman, a longtime aide to Jackson and native of Selma.
“Selma has always stood for the basics of what civil rights is, what we are debating in policy. He was always focused on what we needed in terms of policy in any given political moment, and that's what the march represents," said Coleman.
A choir sings during the Homegoing Celebration of Life for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Mr. T poses with a visitor during the Homegoing Celebration of Life for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
A person celebrates during the Homegoing Celebration of Life for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Yusef Jackson attends the Homegoing Celebration of Life for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
A visitor listens during the Homegoing Celebration of Life for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Jacqueline Jackson leaves the Public Homegoing Service for Rev. Jesse Jackson at the House of Hope after the service ended in Chicago, Friday, March 6, 2026 (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Jesse Jackson Jr. speaks during the Public Homegoing Service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the House of Hope in Chicago, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Public Homegoing Service for Reverend Jesse Jackson at the House of Hope in Chicago, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Public Homegoing Service for Reverend Jesse Jackson at the House of Hope in Chicago, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and former President Barack Obama attend the Public Homegoing Service for Reverend Jesse Jackson at the House of Hope in Chicago, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
