Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, November 28, 2003 · MCI Center
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 5–3 on Friday, November 28, 2003 at MCI Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 34–22.
Sheldon Souray scored twice. Jan Bulis, Robert Lang, Pierre Dagenais, Michael Ryder, Alexander Semin and Brendan Witt also scored.
Mathieu Garon made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 17 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Jan Bulis (4)Craig Rivet (5), Joe Juneau (6)1–001:12 MTL
Robert Lang (14)Jaromir Jagr (14), Rick Berry (1)1–116:36 WSH
Pierre Dagenais (1)Mike Ribeiro (12)2–117:56 MTL
Michael Ryder (4)Saku Koivu (5), Francis Bouillon (1)3–118:57 MTL ·
2nd period
Sheldon Souray (7)Pierre Dagenais (1), Yanic Perreault (5)4–107:30 MTL
Alexander Semin (3)Joel Kwiatkowski (2), Jason Doig (6)4–214:31 WSH
3rd period
- Sheldon Souray (8)Saku Koivu (6)5–201:42 MTL
Brendan Witt (1)Sergei Gonchar (20), Dainius Zubrus (7)5–305:04 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
2234
53%47%
1/20/2
66
106
215
1116
88
Penalties
- 4:12 into the first period
Peter Bondra · holding the stick2 min - 18:06 into the first periodBrendan Witt · boarding2 min
- 9:49 into the second period
Darren Langdon · roughing2 min - 9:49 into the second periodRick Berry · roughing2 min
- 19:04 into the second periodSteve Begin · cross checking2 min
- 15:10 into the third periodMike Komisarek · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | 15:28 |
| 26Pierre DagenaisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 10:41 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 22:39 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:37 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 12:51 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 15:30 |
| 90Joe JuneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 19:06 |
| 94Yanic PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 14:53 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:52 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:42 |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:47 |
| 20Richard ZednikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:13 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:30 |
| 24Andreas DackellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 17:48 |
| 37Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:29 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 13:22 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:56 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:36 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mathieu GaronG | W | 34 | 3 | .912 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:28 |
| 20Robert LangC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 24:14 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 16:34 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 25:40 |
| 3Jason DoigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:53 |
| 4Rick BerryD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23:13 |
| 29Joel KwiatkowskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 19:54 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 31:12 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 13:18 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:43 |
| 14Kip MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:14 |
| 16Brian SutherbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:40 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 09:48 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:11 |
| 27Ivan CiernikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 14:47 |
| 51Stephen PeatR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:18 |
| 8Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rastislav StanaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 22 | 5 | .773 |