Washington Capitals vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, January 10, 2009 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 5-4 on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at Centre Bell.
Alexander Semin scored twice and Tomas Plekanec scored twice. Robert Lang, Andrei Kostitsyn, Tomas Fleischmann, Michael Nylander and Sergei Kostitsyn also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Alexander Semin (15)Mike Green (17), Tyler Sloan (4)1–007:59 WSH
Tomas Plekanec (8)Tom Kostopoulos (9), Mike Komisarek (3)1–109:20 MTL · SHG
2nd period
- Alexander Semin (16)Unassisted2–113:04 WSH
3rd period
Robert Lang (16)Andrei Markov (25), Andrei Kostitsyn (12)2–201:56 MTL · PPG
Andrei Kostitsyn (13)Sergei Kostitsyn (10), Patrice Brisebois (9)2–302:39 MTL · PPG
Tomas Fleischmann (13)Matt Bradley (4), Michael Nylander (16)3–304:15 WSH- Tomas Plekanec (9)Max Pacioretty (2), Alex Kovalev (21)3–404:31 MTL
Michael Nylander (4)Alex Ovechkin (27), Mike Green (18)4–412:21 WSH · PPG
Sergei Kostitsyn (8)Unassisted4–519:38 MTL
Team stats
WSHMTL
35Shots on goal35
53%Faceoff %47%
1/4Power play2/6
14Penalty minutes10
18Hits19
17Blocked shots32
11Giveaways6
11Takeaways5
Penalties
- 1st 09:05
Alex Kovalev · high sticking2 min - 1st 12:29Guillaume Latendresse · tripping2 min
- 1st 15:20
Milan Jurcina · closing hand on puck2 min - 2nd 04:25Sean Collins · tripping2 min
- 2nd 07:06Maxim Lapierre · hooking2 min
- 2nd 10:16Donald Brashear · roughing2 min
- 2nd 16:59Tom Kostopoulos · hooking2 min
- 2nd 16:59Alex Ovechkin · diving2 min
- 2nd 17:39Bench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 2nd 20:00Nicklas Backstrom · hooking2 min
- 3rd 01:37Tyler Sloan · hooking2 min
- 3rd 11:10Sergei Kostitsyn · hooking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.