Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, November 17, 2000 · MCI Center
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–3 on Friday, November 17, 2000 at MCI Center. The Canadiens outshot the Capitals 32–26.
Peter Bondra scored twice. Adam Oates, Craig Darby, Richard Zednik, Stephane Robidas and Dainius Zubrus also scored.
Olie Kolzig made 29 saves on 32 shots for the win; Eric Fichaud stopped 18 of 19.
Scoring
1st period
Peter Bondra (7)Chris Simon (1), Andrei Nikolishin (4)0–110:20 WSH · 
Adam Oates (3)Sergei Gonchar (8), Ulf Dahlen (7)0–218:52 WSH
2nd period
Craig Darby (3)Brian Savage (6), Craig Rivet (2)1–200:33 MTL
Richard Zednik (5)Peter Bondra (11), Andrei Nikolishin (5)1–300:54 WSH- Peter Bondra (8)Jan Bulis (4), Ken Klee (1)1–407:46 WSH
3rd period
Stephane Robidas (1)Martin Rucinsky (9), Eric Landry (1)2–410:48 MTL
Dainius Zubrus (8)Sergei Zholtok (8)3–411:05 MTL
Team stats
MTLWSH
3226
48%52%
0/71/4
814
3622
515
1320
105
Penalties
- 1:55 into the first period
Chris Simon · hooking2 min - 5:10 into the first periodAndrei Nikolishin · high sticking2 min
- 8:55 into the first period
Eric Weinrich · tripping2 min - 15:51 into the first periodRichard Zednik · high sticking2 min
- 2:07 into the second periodKen Klee · slashing2 min
- 4:34 into the second periodJeff Halpern · slashing2 min
- 4:38 into the second periodEric Landry · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 8:08 into the second periodCraig Darby · tripping2 min
- 15:04 into the second periodKen Klee · hooking2 min
- 16:47 into the third periodChris Simon · slashing2 min
- 17:20 into the third periodDainius Zubrus · elbowing2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 15Dainius ZubrusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:24 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:30 |
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:45 |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:06 |
| 63Craig DarbyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:52 |
| 78Eric LandryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14:39 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:01 |
| 56Stephane RobidasD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 09:39 |
| 14Trevor LindenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:04 |
| 32Oleg PetrovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:43 |
| 35Andrei BashkirovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:03 |
| 47Juha LindL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:46 |
| 83Eric BertrandL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:46 |
| 22Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 24:40 |
| 24Christian LaflammeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 12:20 |
| 28Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 08:30 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 23:26 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41Eric FichaudG | L | 19 | 1 | .947 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 7 | 3 | .571 |
Washington Capitals
| 12Peter BondraR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 19:52 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16:30 |
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:07 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:42 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:30 |
| 44Richard ZednikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14:36 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:26 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:20 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:16 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:32 |
| 21James BlackL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:39 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:44 |
| 25Terry YakeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:04 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:30 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23:17 |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:23 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23:19 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 32 | 3 | .906 |