Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, January 31, 2008 · Verizon Center
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Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 in overtime on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 38–21.
Alex Ovechkin scored 4 goals and Guillaume Latendresse scored twice. Viktor Kozlov, Sergei Kostitsyn and Andrei Kostitsyn also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Alex Ovechkin (40)Milan Jurcina (5)0–113:06 WSH
2nd period
Viktor Kozlov (10)Alex Ovechkin (27), Tom Poti (13)0–204:35 WSH- Alex Ovechkin (41)Viktor Kozlov (24), Nicklas Backstrom (33)0–311:54 WSH
Sergei Kostitsyn (5)Guillaume Latendresse (6), Maxim Lapierre (5)1–312:44 MTL
Andrei Kostitsyn (15)Andrei Markov (25), Tomas Plekanec (29)2–319:59 MTL ·
3rd period
- Alex Ovechkin (42)Viktor Kozlov (25), Mike Green (17)2–412:30 WSH
Guillaume Latendresse (13)Sergei Kostitsyn (8), Mike Komisarek (13)3–413:47 MTL- Guillaume Latendresse (14)Tomas Plekanec (30), Mark Streit (27)4–419:27 MTL
Overtime
- Alex Ovechkin (43)Jeff Schultz (7), Mike Green (18)4–503:34 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
2138
47%53%
1/30/3
66
2326
1321
717
718
Penalties
- 0:55 into the first period
Alex Kovalev · high sticking2 min - 6:47 into the first period
Donald Brashear · roughing2 min - 12:33 into the first periodSteve Begin · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 12:44 into the first periodAlexander Semin · hooking2 min
- 6:01 into the second periodSaku Koivu · hooking2 min
- 18:43 into the second periodMike Green · tripping2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.