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15/4/2008
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Washington Capitals 2 , Pittsburgh Penguins 4
Shots: 18 - 33
PP: 0 of 2 (7 shots), Passing:57/68=83 %, Challenges:24/46=51 %
PP: 0 of 4 (5 shots), Passing:79/93=84 %, Challenges:47/60=77 %
Attendance: 19740 of 19740 (MCI Center)
Ticket income: 556668 Match televised: Yes
Boxscore for the game:
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15:55 0-1
Keven Veilleux [2] (Radim Vrbata, Slava Kozlov)
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23:51 0-2
Gary Roberts [16] (Travis Zajac, Carlo Colaiacovo)
27:07 0-3
Martin Havlat [28] (Ed Jovanovski)
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40:18 0-4
Chris Clark [6] (Alexei Ponikarovsky, Paul Stastny)
42:43 1-4
Alexandre Picard [12] (Milan Jurcina, Ron Hainsey)
49:06 2-4
Martin St. Louis [24] (Alexander Semin, Alexandre Picard)
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Penalty summary:
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00:23
Mike Green (2 min for high-sticking)
03:03
Benoit Pouliot (2 min for roughing)
03:03
Paul Stastny (2 min for roughing)
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31:27
Josef Boumedienne (2 min for tripping)
33:34
Benoit Pouliot (2 min for boarding)
35:31
Stéphane Veilleux (2 min for slashing)
37:52
Radim Vrbata (2 min for hooking)
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52:14
Martin Havlat (2 min for roughing)
52:14
Milan Jurcina (2 min for roughing)
53:58
Gary Roberts (2 min for tripping)
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Washington Capitals scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Boyd Gordon 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 -2 6.40 4
R Chris Bourque 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 18.40 6
R Martin St. Louis 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 2 14.10 7
R Mike Cammalleri 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 -2 18.00 5
C Nick Tarnasky 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 5.40 4
C Ryan Craig 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 19.00 7
C Alexandre Picard 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 14.00 8
C Nicklas Bäckström 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 -2 17.50 6
L Stéphane Veilleux 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 -2 10.30 4
L Benoit Pouliot 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 12.50 6
L Alexander Semin 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 2 15.30 6
L Alexander Ovechkin 0 0 3 2 1 2 0 -2 19.10 7
D Ron Hainsey 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 22.00 6
D Shaone Morrisonn 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9.30 5
D Mike Green 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 -4 29.40 6
D Josef Boumedienne 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19.20 5
D Milan Jurcina 0 1 0 4 2 4 2 2 16.10 8
D Brian Pothier 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 -4 23.20 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Cristobal Huet 4 0 29 0 0 60.00 6
G Simeon Varlamov 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Pittsburgh Penguins scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Radim Vrbata 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 1 12.20 8
R Chris Clark 1 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 16.40 9
R Guillaume Latendresse 0 0 2 4 2 4 0 0 12.10 7
R Milan Hejduk 0 0 5 1 2 2 0 0 20.00 7
C Keven Veilleux 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 6.30 7
C Paul Stastny 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 14.10 7
C Travis Zajac 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 15.00 7
C Jochen Hecht 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 20.10 8
L Slava Kozlov 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 12.20 7
L Alexei Ponikarovsky 0 1 1 3 1 3 0 1 16.30 8
L Gary Roberts 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 10.40 7
L Martin Havlat 1 0 3 2 1 1 2 0 19.00 7
D Alex Grant 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 15.20 5
D Kenny Jönsson 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 13.50 6
D Ed Jovanovski 0 1 4 2 0 1 0 1 29.30 8
D Rhett Warrener 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 18.30 7
D Carlo Colaiacovo 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 16.10 6
D Eric Brewer 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 27.00 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Martin Brodeur 2 0 16 0 0 60.00 6
G Dany Sabourin 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Chris Clark
2nd star: Keven Veilleux
3rd star: Alexandre Picard
Notes for Washington Capitals:
-Nicklas Bäckström had his 4 game point streak snapped.
Notes for Pittsburgh Penguins:
-Radim Vrbata notched his 10th assist of the season.
-Paul Stastny notched his 20th assist of the season.
-Chris Clark finally ended his 19 game goal drought.
-Milan Hejduk had his 5 game goal streak snapped.
-Milan Hejduk had his 5 game point streak snapped.
-Slava Kozlov finally ended his 11 game point drought.
-Gary Roberts finally ended his 11 game goal drought.
Other notes:
Farm game result:
Portland Pirates 2( 31) , Wilkes-Barre Penguins 1(
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1-0 POR Stanislav Lascek (Yannic Seidenberg, Jamie Hunt)
2-0 POR Grant Potulny (Owen Fussey, Jeff Schultz)
2-1 WIL Branislav Fabry (Kenny Corupe, Tomas Kollar)
Goalies: Marc Denis - Jeff Pietrasiak