Washington Capitals vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Tuesday, March 25, 2008 · RBC Center
XM 204 · CSN-DC · FS-CR
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3–2 in a shootout on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at RBC Center. The Capitals outshot the Hurricanes 44–27.
Goals came from Jeff Hamilton, Alexander Semin, Alex Ovechkin and Erik Cole.
Scoring
1st period
Jeff Hamilton (7)Joe Corvo (31), Eric Staal (41)0–119:46 CAR ·
2nd period
Alexander Semin (23)Sergei Fedorov (24), Nicklas Backstrom (51)1–107:15 WSH · 
Alex Ovechkin (61)Nicklas Backstrom (52), Viktor Kozlov (33)2–109:41 WSH
Erik Cole (22)Unassisted2–216:27 CAR ·
Team stats
WSHCAR
4427
59%41%
1/62/4
812
2141
1713
45
612
Penalties
- 5:00 into the first period
Sergei Samsonov · high sticking2 min - 7:56 into the first period
Steve Eminger · holding2 min - 19:36 into the first periodAlexander Semin · hooking2 min
- 5:14 into the second periodTrevor Letowski · holding2 min
- 6:37 into the second periodEric Staal · tripping2 min
- 16:01 into the second periodJeff Schultz · hooking2 min
- 16:52 into the second periodAlex Ovechkin · roughing2 min
- 18:17 into the second periodEric Staal · tripping2 min
- 1:07 into the third periodTrevor Letowski · tripping2 min
- 0:16 into overtimeErik Cole · hooking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.