Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, February 23, 2001 · MCI Center
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 3–1 on Friday, February 23, 2001 at MCI Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 32–26.
Goals came from Jeff Halpern, Dmitri Khristich, Calle Johansson and Oleg Petrov.
Olie Kolzig made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Jose Theodore stopped 29 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Jeff Halpern (14)Ulf Dahlen (25), Steve Konowalchuk (16)0–103:23 WSH
Dmitri Khristich (11)Adam Oates (49), Chris Simon (9)0–209:28 WSH
3rd period
Calle Johansson (5)Sylvain Cote (6), Ulf Dahlen (26)0–304:47 WSH · 
Oleg Petrov (10)Sheldon Souray (3), Patrice Brisebois (20)1–316:07 MTL
Team stats
MTLWSH
2632
40%60%
0/61/4
1014
2323
1510
1315
813
Penalties
- 7:06 into the first period
Sergei Gonchar · hooking obstruction2 min - 10:38 into the first periodTrent Whitfield · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 13:08 into the first period
Matthieu Descôteaux · holding2 min - 15:04 into the first periodJan Bulis · interference2 min
- 14:32 into the second periodSheldon Souray · roughing2 min
- 1:08 into the third periodRichard Zednik · tripping2 min
- 3:32 into the third periodMatthieu Descôteaux · holding2 min
- 10:14 into the third periodBrendan Witt · roughing2 min
- 13:08 into the third periodEric Landry · roughing2 min
- 15:13 into the third periodStephane Robidas · slashing2 min
- 15:13 into the third periodSteve Konowalchuk · slashing2 min
- 19:17 into the third periodRob Zettler · boarding2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 32Oleg PetrovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:16 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 23:49 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:59 |
| 8Jim CampbellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:30 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:42 |
| 14Trevor LindenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:17 |
| 15Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:34 |
| 23Francis BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:02 |
| 25Chad KilgerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:25 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 17:30 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:45 |
| 39Johan WitehallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:54 |
| 63Craig DarbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:07 |
| 78Eric LandryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:50 |
| 28Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:11 |
| 54Patrick TraverseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 20:08 |
| 55Matthieu DescôteauxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:26 |
| 56Stephane RobidasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:44 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jeff HackettG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | L | 32 | 3 | .906 |
Washington Capitals
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 11:37 |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:59 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 15:16 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:35 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:38 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:07 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:48 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22:53 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21:29 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10:23 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:47 |
| 23Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:22 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:54 |
| 44Richard ZednikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:53 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:46 |
| 24Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:15 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:48 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |