Washington Capitals vs Columbus Blue Jackets
Regular season · Saturday, April 3, 2010 · Nationwide Arena
CSN-DC (HD) · FS-O (HD)
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3–2 on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at Nationwide Arena. The Blue Jackets outshot the Capitals 36–27.
Antoine Vermette scored twice. Alexander Semin, Tomas Fleischmann and Mike Green also scored.
Jose Theodore made 34 saves on 36 shots for the win; Steve Mason stopped 22 of 23.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Alexander Semin (1)Brooks Laich (1), Tyler Sloan (1)1–005:54 WSH
Tomas Fleischmann (1)Mike Knuble (1), Eric Fehr (1)2–010:42 WSH
Mike Green (1)Unassisted3–013:44 WSH · 
Antoine Vermette (1)Rick Nash (1)3–114:07 CBJ ·
3rd period
- Antoine Vermette (2)Rick Nash (2), Marc Methot (1)3–212:17 CBJ
Team stats
WSHCBJ
2736
59%41%
1/60/3
612
1421
1511
15
06
Penalties
- 8:37 into the first period
Anton Stralman · holding2 min - 12:27 into the first periodDerick Brassard · charging2 min
- 12:45 into the first periodMarc Methot · roughing2 min
- 17:33 into the first period
Tyler Sloan · hooking2 min - 9:39 into the second periodTomas Kana · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 0:33 into the third periodJason Chimera · cross checking2 min
- 1:10 into the third periodShaone Morrisonn · tripping2 min
- 4:38 into the third periodSamuel Pahlsson · hooking2 min
- 13:37 into the third periodR.J. Umberger · tripping2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 14Tomas FleischmannL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 12:05 |
| 16Eric FehrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:26 |
| 21Brooks LaichL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:24 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:33 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:24 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 24:25 |
| 89Tyler SloanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:42 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 23:50 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:27 |
| 18Eric BelangerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:14 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:02 |
| 25Jason ChimeraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:11 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:08 |
| 53Quintin LaingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:27 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:57 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:35 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:26 |
| 77Joe CorvoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:49 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40Semyon VarlamovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 36 | 2 | .944 |
Columbus Blue Jackets
| 50Antoine VermetteC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 19:15 |
| 61Rick NashL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 6 | 21:21 |
| 3Marc MethotD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:29 |
| 12Mike BlundenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 04:37 |
| 15Derek DorsettR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:14 |
| 16Derick BrassardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:53 |
| 17Andrew MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:21 |
| 18R.J. UmbergerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22:56 |
| 20Kristian HuseliusL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:53 |
| 26Samuel PahlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:57 |
| 39Greg MooreR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:25 |
| 46Tomas KanaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:05 |
| 93Jakub VoracekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:16 |
| 4Nathan PaetschD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:03 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:59 |
| 22Mike CommodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:19 |
| 44Grant ClitsomeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:48 |
| 51Fedor TyutinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Steve MasonG | L | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 32Mathieu GaronG | 4 | 2 | .500 |