Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, January 4, 2007 · Verizon Center
RDS · NC8 (HD)
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–1 on Thursday, January 4, 2007 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 35–28.
Dainius Zubrus scored twice and Alexander Semin scored twice. Craig Rivet and Lawrence Nycholat also scored.
Olie Kolzig made 27 saves on 28 shots for the win; Cristobal Huet stopped 16 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Craig Rivet (5)Guillaume Latendresse (10), Alex Kovalev (20)1–009:34 MTL · 
Dainius Zubrus (15)Alex Ovechkin (27), Alexander Semin (18)1–115:21 WSH · - Dainius Zubrus (16)Alex Ovechkin (28), Steve Eminger (6)1–217:43 WSH
2nd period
Lawrence Nycholat (2)Alex Ovechkin (29), Steve Eminger (7)1–307:52 WSH
Alexander Semin (18)Boyd Gordon (8)1–408:48 WSH
3rd period
- Alexander Semin (19)Matt Pettinger (9), Lawrence Nycholat (4)1–509:33 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
2835
51%49%
1/41/6
128
2020
1720
2016
1717
Penalties
- 4:16 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 7:50 into the first period
Jakub Klepis · hooking2 min - 10:27 into the first periodRadek Bonk · hooking2 min
- 14:53 into the first periodMike Johnson · tripping2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodAlex Ovechkin · high sticking2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodAlex Ovechkin · high sticking2 min
- 6:49 into the second periodDonald Brashear · tripping2 min
- 7:18 into the second periodSaku Koivu · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 12:40 into the second periodChris Higgins · hooking2 min
- 10:06 into the third periodMike Komisarek · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:17 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:26 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 3 | 21:28 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:21 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:54 |
| 15Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13:51 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:13 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 15:49 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:08 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:25 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:50 |
| 47Aaron DowneyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 06:33 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 13:50 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:53 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:25 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 23:05 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 18:52 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | 15 | 1 | .933 | |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | L | 20 | 4 | .800 |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 7 | 18:24 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 15:40 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 16:03 |
| 3Lawrence NycholatD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 23:28 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 19:27 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 16:26 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 19:12 |
| 16Brian SutherbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:56 |
| 17Chris ClarkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:13 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:53 |
| 24Kris BeechC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:59 |
| 27Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:56 |
| 38Jakub KlepisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:34 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:37 |
| 2Brian PothierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:23 |
| 6Jamie HewardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:22 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 28 | 1 | .964 |