Washington Capitals vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, December 12, 2009 · Air Canada Centre
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Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Washington Capitals 6–3 on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at Air Canada Centre. The Capitals outshot the Maple Leafs 37–36.
Nicklas Backstrom scored twice and Matt Stajan scored twice. Alex Ovechkin, Phil Kessel, Niklas Hagman, Lee Stempniak and Alexei Ponikarovsky also scored.
Vesa Toskala made 34 saves on 37 shots for the win; Michal Neuvirth stopped 30 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Alex Ovechkin (1)Mike Green (1), Tomas Fleischmann (1)1–002:00 WSH · 
Nicklas Backstrom (1)Alex Ovechkin (1), Milan Jurcina (1)2–005:15 WSH
2nd period
Matt Stajan (1)Phil Kessel (1)2–101:29 TOR
Phil Kessel (1)Tomas Kaberle (1), Mikhail Grabovski (1)2–205:54 TOR · - Nicklas Backstrom (2)Alex Ovechkin (2), Alexander Semin (1)3–208:33 WSH
Niklas Hagman (1)Mikhail Grabovski (2), Phil Kessel (2)3–316:39 TOR
3rd period
- Matt Stajan (2)Alexei Ponikarovsky (1), Francois Beauchemin (1)3–405:03 TOR
Lee Stempniak (1)Matt Stajan (1)3–509:44 TOR · 
Alexei Ponikarovsky (1)Ian White (1)3–619:20 TOR ·
Team stats
WSHTOR
3736
52%48%
1/32/4
86
1117
1418
1314
210
Penalties
- 0:50 into the first period
Vesa Toskala · delaying game smothering puck2 min - 12:15 into the first periodJamal Mayers · tripping2 min
- 4:21 into the second period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 5:37 into the second periodMike Green · tripping2 min
- 6:39 into the third periodJohn Erskine · holding2 min
- 8:26 into the third periodJason Blake · high sticking2 min
- 19:10 into the third periodMike Green · interference2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 21:26 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20:56 |
| 14Tomas FleischmannL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:47 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 22:07 |
| 23Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:32 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 23:36 |
| 9Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:15 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:40 |
| 16Eric FehrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:25 |
| 17Chris ClarkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10:45 |
| 21Brooks LaichL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 15:40 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:06 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:14 |
| 85Mathieu PerreaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:29 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 22:12 |
| 4John ErskineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:51 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:06 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:21 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Michal NeuvirthG | L | 36 | 6 | .833 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 14Matt StajanC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 20:50 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 20:37 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 19:14 |
| 22Francois BeaucheminD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25:20 |
| 9Niklas HagmanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:59 |
| 12Lee StempniakR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:21 |
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:29 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24:47 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 25:10 |
| 18Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:02 |
| 21Jamal MayersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:20 |
| 28Colton OrrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:38 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 51Rickard WallinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:39 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:38 |
| 3Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 10:32 |
| 4Jeff FingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:47 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Joey MacDonaldG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Vesa ToskalaG | W | 37 | 3 | .919 |