Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals

Regular season · Wednesday, December 27, 2006 · Verizon Center

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4–1

27–31

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Game summary

The Montréal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 4–1 on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 31–27.

Goals came from Mathieu Dandenault, Aaron Downey, Saku Koivu, Alexander Semin and Sheldon Souray.

Cristobal Huet made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 23 of 26.

Goals
MTL	2	0	2	4	27
WSH	0	0	1	1	31

Scoring

1st period

Mathieu Dandenault (1)Guillaume Latendresse (8), Tomas Plekanec (9)1–012:36 MTL
Aaron Downey (1)Radek Bonk (7), Guillaume Latendresse (9)2–018:15 MTL

3rd period

Saku Koivu (15)Sheldon Souray (20), Alex Kovalev (17)3–014:36 MTL ·
Alexander Semin (16)Alex Ovechkin (24), Dainius Zubrus (19)3–117:04 WSH ·
Sheldon Souray (13)Unassisted4–119:15 MTL · ·

Team stats

MTLWSH

2731

57%43%

1/41/8

2315

1510

1614

46

48

Penalties

4:20 into the first periodSaku Koivu · hooking2 min
8:18 into the first periodAndrei Markov · holding2 min
8:48 into the first periodMike Green · hooking2 min
14:51 into the first periodTomas Plekanec · tripping2 min
2:57 into the second periodAaron Downey · fighting5 min
2:57 into the second periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
14:30 into the second periodAlexander Semin · hooking2 min
5:42 into the third periodMike Komisarek · interference2 min
10:13 into the third periodMike Green · interference2 min
10:43 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · holding2 min
12:49 into the third periodCraig Rivet · delaying game2 min
12:49 into the third periodMatt Pettinger · delaying game2 min
13:16 into the third periodAlexander Semin · slashing2 min
16:03 into the third periodRadek Bonk · hooking2 min
16:33 into the third periodCraig Rivet · cross checking2 min
18:22 into the third periodMike Komisarek · slashing2 min

Season series

Montréal Canadiens

Montréal Canadiens skaters

84Guillaume LatendresseL	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	–	08:44
44Sheldon SourayD	1	1	2	+3	7	0	3	0	–	18:04
11Saku KoivuC	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	61	18:57
14Radek BonkC	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	2	56	18:56
25Mathieu DandenaultR	1	0	1	+3	1	2	3	0	–	15:42
27Alex KovalevR	0	1	1	0	1	3	1	2	100	18:10
35Tomas PlekanecC	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	2	67	16:38
47Aaron DowneyR	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	5	–	01:37
15Sergei SamsonovL	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	–	15:20
20Mike JohnsonR	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	–	17:19
21Chris HigginsL	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	–	14:18
42Alexander PerezhoginR	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	–	11:47
73Michael RyderR	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	–	17:12
8Mike KomisarekD	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	4	–	22:02
32Mark StreitD	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	07:06
51Francis BouillonD	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	–	20:30
52Craig RivetD	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	–	18:28
79Andrei MarkovD	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	–	22:31

Montréal Canadiens goalies
Goalie
30David AebischerG		0	0	0	–	–
39Cristobal HuetG	W	31	30	1	.968	60:00

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals skaters

8Alex OvechkinL	0	1	1	−2	5	0	0	0	–	20:48
9Dainius ZubrusC	0	1	1	−2	1	0	1	0	50	22:11
28Alexander SeminR	1	0	1	−2	7	0	0	4	100	22:47
15Boyd GordonC	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	35	14:38
16Brian SutherbyC	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	33	09:07
17Chris ClarkR	0	0	0	−1	4	1	0	0	50	20:00
18Matt PettingerL	0	0	0	−1	1	0	0	2	–	19:01
21Brooks LaichC	0	0	0	−1	2	0	1	0	100	15:45
24Kris BeechC	0	0	0	−1	2	1	1	0	42	14:10
27Ben ClymerR	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	–	14:08
38Jakub KlepisC	0	0	0	−2	1	1	0	0	–	12:08
87Donald BrashearL	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	–	06:54
2Brian PothierD	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	–	22:20
3Lawrence NycholatD	0	0	0	−1	1	1	0	0	–	18:38
6Jamie HewardD	0	0	0	−1	0	0	2	0	–	11:13
44Steve EmingerD	0	0	0	−1	2	0	2	0	–	20:39
52Mike GreenD	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	–	17:48
55Jeff SchultzD	0	0	0	−1	0	0	2	0	–	09:22

Washington Capitals goalies
Goalie
1Brent JohnsonG		0	0	0	–	–
37Olie KolzigG	L	26	23	3	.885	58:58