Boston Bruins vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Monday, March 3, 2008 · Verizon Center
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Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Boston Bruins 10-2 on Monday, March 3, 2008 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Bruins 34-27.
Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick, Matt Bradley scored twice and Brooks Laich scored twice. Matt Cooke, Dennis Wideman, Nicklas Backstrom, Donald Brashear and Marco Sturm also scored.
Cristobal Huet made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Tim Thomas stopped 17 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Matt Cooke (8)Jeff Schultz (10), Matt Bradley (10)0–100:32 WSH
Alex Ovechkin (50)Nicklas Backstrom (44), Shaone Morrisonn (8)0–206:18 WSH- Alex Ovechkin (51)Nicklas Backstrom (45), Tom Poti (21)0–307:08 WSH
Matt Bradley (4)Matt Cooke (10), David Steckel (7)0–408:29 WSH- Alex Ovechkin (52)Alexander Semin (13), Nicklas Backstrom (46)0–515:31 WSH · PPG
Brooks Laich (14)Viktor Kozlov (28), Eric Fehr (2)0–618:43 WSH · PPG
2nd period
Dennis Wideman (10)Marc Savard (60), Zdeno Chara (31)1–600:36 BOS · PPG
Nicklas Backstrom (10)Alex Ovechkin (37), Tom Poti (22)1–707:50 WSH
Donald Brashear (5)Eric Fehr (3), John Erskine (7)1–816:31 WSH
Marco Sturm (23)Shane Hnidy (4), Glen Metropolit (19)2–817:03 BOS
3rd period
- Brooks Laich (15)Alex Ovechkin (38), Eric Fehr (4)2–902:03 WSH · PPG
- Matt Bradley (5)Mike Green (26), Matt Cooke (11)2–1018:15 WSH · PPG
Team stats
BOSWSH
27Shots on goal34
46%Faceoff %54%
1/7Power play4/7
24Penalty minutes24
25Hits16
7Blocked shots16
7Giveaways17
8Takeaways6
Penalties
- 1st 01:13
Dennis Wideman · hooking2 min - 1st 03:35
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 1st 06:53Zdeno Chara · fighting5 min
- 1st 06:53Donald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 1st 14:30Glen Metropolit · slashing2 min
- 1st 16:52Zdeno Chara · roughing2 min
- 1st 19:35Matt Bradley · hooking2 min
- 2nd 03:27Marc Savard · slashing2 min
- 2nd 05:31Mike Green · boarding2 min
- 2nd 07:52Shawn Thornton · fighting5 min
- 2nd 07:52Donald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 2nd 08:07Matt Cooke · boarding2 min
- 2nd 18:18John Erskine · cross checking2 min
- 3rd 00:29Glen Metropolit · holding2 min
- 3rd 09:24Matt Bradley · hooking2 min
- 3rd 11:29Alex Ovechkin · hooking2 min
- 3rd 16:09Marc Savard · roughing2 min
- 3rd 17:25Zdeno Chara · slashing2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 13Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 13:43 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:47 |
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 17:58 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 24:41 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:38 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 15:35 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 17:28 |
| 12Chuck KobasewR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 17:13 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 11:13 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 07:22 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 16:37 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 15:16 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 09:00 |
| 60Vladimir SobotkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 08:46 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 16:09 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 22:35 |
| 44Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 19:34 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 18:09 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Alex AuldG | 10 | 7 | 3 | .700 | 23:30 | |
| 30Tim ThomasG | L | 24 | 17 | 7 | .708 | 36:30 |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 3 | 2 | 5 | +3 | 5 | 18:46 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 3 | 15:45 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 11:48 |
| 14Eric FehrC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 12:10 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 10:21 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 2 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 | 15:49 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 23:01 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 15:19 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 3 | 16:04 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 17:38 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 08:12 |
| 4John ErskineD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 18:16 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:52 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22:19 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:03 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:53 |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 14:56 |
| 23Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 16:11 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37Olie KolzigG | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | 18:51 | |
| 38Cristobal HuetG | W | 22 | 20 | 2 | .909 | 39:45 |