Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Playoffs · Saturday, April 17, 2010 · Verizon Center
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Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 6–5 in overtime on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 37–24.
Andrei Kostitsyn scored a hat trick and Nicklas Backstrom scored a hat trick. Brian Gionta, Eric Fehr, Alex Ovechkin, Tomas Plekanec and John Carlson also scored.
Semyon Varlamov made 19 saves on 22 shots for the win; Jaroslav Halak stopped 31 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Gionta (1)Scott Gomez (1)1–001:00 MTL
Andrei Kostitsyn (1)Unassisted2–007:58 MTL
Eric Fehr (1)Tomas Fleischmann (1)2–110:21 WSH
2nd period
- Andrei Kostitsyn (2)Michael Cammalleri (1), Tomas Plekanec (1)3–111:06 MTL
- Andrei Kostitsyn (3)Jaroslav Spacek (1), Michael Cammalleri (2)4–117:44 MTL ·
Nicklas Backstrom (1)Joe Corvo (1), Alex Ovechkin (1)4–218:23 WSH
3rd period
Alex Ovechkin (1)John Carlson (1)4–302:56 WSH- Nicklas Backstrom (2)Alex Ovechkin (2), Jeff Schultz (1)4–409:47 WSH
Tomas Plekanec (1)Michael Cammalleri (3), Andrei Kostitsyn (1)5–414:54 MTL
John Carlson (1)Nicklas Backstrom (1), Alex Ovechkin (3)5–518:39 WSH
Overtime
- Nicklas Backstrom (3)Mike Knuble (1), Tom Poti (1)5–600:31 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
2437
43%57%
1/30/3
1111
1628
3011
710
412
Penalties
- 0:37 into the second period
Eric Belanger · tripping2 min - 16:08 into the second periodBrooks Laich · tripping2 min
- 19:39 into the second period
Michael Cammalleri · slashing2 min - 3:30 into the third periodScott Gomez · fighting5 min
- 3:30 into the third periodTom Poti · fighting5 min
- 4:13 into the third periodAlexander Semin · tripping2 min
- 11:27 into the third periodHal Gill · interference2 min
- 15:17 into the third periodBenoit Pouliot · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 15:46 |
| 13Michael CammalleriL | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 16:33 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19:16 |
| 21Brian GiontaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:57 |
| 91Scott GomezC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:18 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 19:52 |
| 32Travis MoenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:38 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:48 |
| 42Dominic MooreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:31 |
| 52Mathieu DarcheL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:46 |
| 57Benoit PouliotL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:49 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:05 |
| 94Tom PyattC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:01 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:27 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 21:39 |
| 47Marc-Andre BergeronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:42 |
| 75Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:04 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | L | 37 | 6 | .838 |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 6 | 20:22 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 6 | 19:33 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 17:02 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10:27 |
| 14Tomas FleischmannL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:18 |
| 16Eric FehrR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:17 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:47 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:02 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 21:41 |
| 77Joe CorvoD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:31 |
| 9Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:33 |
| 18Eric BelangerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:41 |
| 21Brooks LaichL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:01 |
| 25Jason ChimeraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 11:23 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:21 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:51 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:30 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25:39 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40Semyon VarlamovG | W | 22 | 3 | .864 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 2 | 2 | .000 |