Ottawa Senators vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Sunday, February 1, 2009 · Verizon Center
SNET-E · XM 205 · CSN-DC (HD)
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Ottawa Senators 7–4 on Sunday, February 1, 2009 at Verizon Center. The Senators outshot the Capitals 38–30.
Daniel Alfredsson scored twice and Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick. Mike Green, Eric Fehr, Alexander Semin, Antoine Vermette, Dany Heatley and Nicklas Backstrom also scored.
Brent Johnson made 34 saves on 38 shots for the win; Alex Auld stopped 11 of 13.
Scoring
1st period
Daniel Alfredsson (13)Dany Heatley (23), Jason Spezza (21)1–003:31 OTT
Mike Green (15)Nicklas Backstrom (39)1–109:43 WSH · 
Alex Ovechkin (34)Mike Green (23), Sergei Fedorov (11)1–210:32 WSH ·
2nd period
Eric Fehr (4)Nicklas Backstrom (40), Jeff Schultz (8)1–300:46 WSH- Alex Ovechkin (35)Sergei Fedorov (12), Viktor Kozlov (20)1–402:15 WSH
- Daniel Alfredsson (14)Anton Volchenkov (2), Chris Phillips (6)2–405:01 OTT
Alexander Semin (19)Mike Green (24), Brooks Laich (16)2–513:07 WSH- Alex Ovechkin (36)Sergei Fedorov (13)2–615:31 WSH
3rd period
Antoine Vermette (6)Chris Kelly (8), Mike Fisher (11)3–607:56 OTT
Dany Heatley (22)Unassisted4–611:28 OTT · 
Nicklas Backstrom (13)Mike Green (25)4–719:36 WSH ·
Team stats
OTTWSH
3830
55%45%
1/62/5
1012
2829
1420
1216
79
Penalties
- 9:40 into the first period
Dany Heatley · hooking2 min - 10:28 into the first periodJarkko Ruutu · hooking2 min
- 17:33 into the first periodChris Kelly · hooking2 min
- 4:20 into the second period
Donald Brashear · holding2 min - 4:40 into the second periodChris Neil · high sticking2 min
- 5:42 into the second periodJason Spezza · interference2 min
- 9:24 into the second periodBoyd Gordon · holding the stick2 min
- 2:52 into the third periodMilan Jurcina · holding2 min
- 4:29 into the third periodAlexander Semin · tripping2 min
- 11:25 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 12:17 into the third periodMike Green · slashing2 min
Season series
Ottawa Senators
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 4 | 19:39 |
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 3 | 20:17 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:53 |
| 19Jason SpezzaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19:47 |
| 20Antoine VermetteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:34 |
| 22Chris KellyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 13:40 |
| 4Chris PhillipsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 22:24 |
| 24Anton VolchenkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:33 |
| 18Jesse WinchesterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:59 |
| 25Chris NeilR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 15:06 |
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:54 |
| 43Peter ReginC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:09 |
| 73Jarkko RuutuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:08 |
| 5Christoph SchubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:16 |
| 17Filip KubaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 22:11 |
| 21Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:29 |
| 45Alexandre PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:10 |
| 55Brian LeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Brian ElliottG | 16 | 4 | .750 | |
| 31Alex AuldG | L | 13 | 2 | .846 |
Washington Capitals
| 52Mike GreenD | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | 21:39 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 20:48 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 17:49 |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 0 | 15:08 |
| 16Eric FehrC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 11:05 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:31 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:09 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:48 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 2 | 23:12 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:44 |
| 14Tomas FleischmannL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:28 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:35 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:43 |
| 92Michael NylanderC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:36 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:37 |
| 4John ErskineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:55 |
| 23Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:06 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | W | 38 | 4 | .895 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |