Edmonton Oilers vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, January 17, 2008 · Verizon Center
SNET-W · XM 208 · CSN-DC (HD)
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Edmonton Oilers 5–4 in a shootout on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at Verizon Center. The Oilers outshot the Capitals 33–32.
Shawn Horcoff scored twice. Robert Nilsson, Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin, Dustin Penner, Mike Green and Alexander Semin also scored.
Olie Kolzig made 29 saves on 33 shots for the win; Dwayne Roloson stopped 28 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Shawn Horcoff (20)Sheldon Souray (7), Ales Hemsky (26)1–008:33 EDM
Robert Nilsson (5)Unassisted2–013:53 EDM ·
2nd period
Nicklas Backstrom (9)Jeff Schultz (5)2–101:01 WSH
Alex Ovechkin (35)Boyd Gordon (7), Jeff Schultz (6)2–201:39 WSH
Dustin Penner (14)Shawn Horcoff (26), Ales Hemsky (27)3–206:49 EDM · 
Mike Green (14)Alex Ovechkin (22)3–311:58 WSH · 
Alexander Semin (10)Tomas Fleischmann (11), Boyd Gordon (8)3–419:08 WSH
3rd period
- Shawn Horcoff (21)Ales Hemsky (28), Ladislav Smid (3)4–407:40 EDM
Team stats
EDMWSH
3332
43%57%
2/51/6
1414
2227
1614
1617
1114
Penalties
- 3:24 into the first period
Marty Reasoner · hooking2 min - 3:31 into the first periodSteve Staios · roughing2 min
- 3:31 into the first period
Alexander Semin · roughing2 min - 5:50 into the first periodFernando Pisani · slashing2 min
- 6:31 into the first periodViktor Kozlov · slashing2 min
- 8:41 into the first periodBrooks Laich · boarding2 min
- 13:35 into the first periodMike Green · interference2 min
- 17:55 into the first periodSheldon Souray · hooking2 min
- 5:10 into the second periodNicklas Backstrom · hooking2 min
- 10:38 into the second periodShawn Horcoff · tripping2 min
- 10:43 into the second periodAlexander Semin · slashing2 min
- 11:36 into the second periodJarret Stoll · slashing2 min
- 15:34 into the second periodJohn Erskine · tripping2 min
- 9:34 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Edmonton Oilers
| 10Shawn HorcoffC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 23:37 |
| 83Ales HemskyR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 20:37 |
| 12Robert NilssonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:52 |
| 27Dustin PennerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:35 |
| 5Ladislav SmidD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:48 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 30:49 |
| 13Andrew CoglianoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 16Jarret StollC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:50 |
| 18Ethan MoreauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 16:55 |
| 19Marty ReasonerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 14:57 |
| 34Fernando PisaniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:16 |
| 46Zack StortiniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:16 |
| 51Kyle BrodziakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:09 |
| 89Sam GagnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 07:48 |
| 24Steve StaiosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 28:01 |
| 25Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:22 |
| 37Denis GrebeshkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:15 |
| 77Tom GilbertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 25:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Mathieu GaronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Dwayne RolosonG | O | 32 | 4 | .875 |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 24:28 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 15:14 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 17:01 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 25:11 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 17:21 |
| 43Tomas FleischmannL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:11 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 31:13 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:07 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:34 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 12:50 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 19:38 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:28 |
| 53Quintin LaingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:20 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:49 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 23:26 |
| 4John ErskineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:51 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:55 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 33 | 4 | .879 |