----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8/3/2011
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Washington Capitals 9 , Pittsburgh Penguins 2
Shots: 31 - 21
PP: 2 of 3 (3 shots), Passing:65/77=84 %, Challenges:28/43=63 %
PP: 0 of 4 (4 shots), Passing:71/84=84 %, Challenges:37/56=64 %
Attendance: 13209 of 18277 (Verizon Center)
Ticket income: 635353 Match televised: Yes
Boxscore for the game:
------------------------------------------------------------
09:07 1-0
Tomas Fleischmann [14] (Eric Fehr, Jeff Schultz)PP
14:29 1-1
Tyler Kennedy [2] (Denis Gauthier)
------------------------------------------------------------
34:36 2-1
Eric Fehr [11] (Nikolai Kulemin, Guillaume Latendresse)
36:53 3-1
Nicklas Bäckström [33] (Alexander Ovechkin, Mike Commodore)SH
38:59 4-1
Tomas Fleischmann [15] (Guillaume Latendresse, Alexander Ovechkin)PP
------------------------------------------------------------
41:17 5-1
Alexander Ovechkin [29] (Guillaume Latendresse, Nicklas Bäckström)
43:41 6-1
Anton Gustafsson [2] (Brooks Laich, Tomas Fleischmann)
46:43 7-1
Nicklas Bäckström [34] (Guillaume Latendresse, Alexander Ovechkin)
50:29 7-2
Matthew Lombardi [22] (Wade Redden, Denis Gauthier)
51:22 8-2
Alexander Ovechkin [30])
53:48 9-2
Dmitri Kugryshev [8] (Brooks Laich, Anton Gustafsson)
------------------------------------------------------------
Penalty summary:
-----------------
04:22
Garnet Exelby (2 min for hooking)
08:19
Sidney Crosby (2 min for cross-checking)
------------------------------------------------------------
26:26
Keven Veilleux (2 min for roughing)
26:26
Anton Gustafsson (2 min for roughing)
27:27
Garnet Exelby (2 min for tripping)
29:15
Jeff Schultz (2 min for elbowing)
35:54
John Carlson (2 min for elbowing)
37:24
Chris Kunitz (2 min for roughing)
37:24
Mike Commodore (2 min for roughing)
38:14
Steve Quailer (2 min for elbowing)
------------------------------------------------------------
57:32
Steve Quailer (2 min for cross-checking)
------------------------------------------------------------
Washington Capitals scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Marcus Johansson 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 11.30 6
R Dmitri Kugryshev 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 8.50 7
R Eric Fehr 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 1 15.20 8
R Alexander Ovechkin 2 3 5 5 0 4 0 3 21.40 10
C Éric Bélanger 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 11.20 5
C Brooks Laich 0 2 3 3 2 3 0 1 12.00 8
C Tomas Fleischmann 2 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 16.40 8
C Nicklas Bäckström 2 1 4 2 0 1 0 3 20.40 10
L Mathieu Perreault 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 11.20 5
L Anton Gustafsson 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 8.50 7
L Nikolai Kulemin 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 12.00 8
L Guillaume Latendresse 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 2 21.50 9
D John Carlson 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 13.10 7
D Karl Alzner 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 14.10 7
D Garnet Exelby 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 2 25.10 6
D Jeff Schultz 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 13.30 7
D Mike Commodore 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 24.00 8
D Luke Schenn 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 30.00 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Simeon Varlamov 2 0 19 0 0 60.00 8
G Jonas Gustavsson 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Pittsburgh Penguins scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Mike Rupp 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 5.30 5
R Steve Quailer 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 -1 15.20 6
R Pascal Dupuis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 16.50 5
R Sam Gagner 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 -3 19.20 6
C Maxime Talbot 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5.30 6
C Keven Veilleux 0 0 1 2 0 3 2 -1 15.10 6
C Travis Zajac 0 0 2 2 4 2 0 -2 21.20 7
C Sidney Crosby 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 -3 21.00 6
L Tyler Kennedy 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5.30 5
L Ryan Craig 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 -1 13.30 5
L Chris Kunitz 0 0 4 2 1 0 2 -2 18.00 7
L Matthew Lombardi 1 0 3 2 2 1 0 -3 19.10 5
D Brooks Orpik 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 16.00 6
D Paul Martin 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 -1 20.10 7
D Sergei Zubov 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 -3 23.50 5
D Denis Gauthier 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 14.50 7
D Kristopher Letang 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 -3 21.10 7
D Wade Redden 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 -2 24.00 6
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Brent Johnson 9 0 22 0 0 60.00 4
G Mike Morrison 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Alexander Ovechkin
2nd star: Nicklas Bäckström
3rd star: Tomas Fleischmann
Notes for Washington Capitals:
-Tomas Fleischmann scored his 15th goal of the season.
-Guillaume Latendresse notched his 50th assist of the season.
-Alexander Ovechkin scored his 30th goal of the season.
Notes for Pittsburgh Penguins:
-Wade Redden notched his 20th assist of the season.
-Travis Zajac had his 6 game point streak snapped.
-Tyler Kennedy finally ended his 51 game goal drought.
-Tyler Kennedy finally ended his 19 game point drought.
Other notes:
Farm game result:
Hershey Bears 3( 28) , Wilkes-Barre Penguins 2( 10)
------------------------------------------------------------
1-0
Chris Bourque (Pierre Dagenais)
1-1
Johannes Salmonsson (Eric Godard)
2-1
Stephen Werner (Luke Lynes)
2-2
Eric Tangradi (Joonas Donskoi)
3-2
Chris Bourque (Pierre Dagenais)
Goalies: Dany Sabourin - Tyler Bestkorowany