National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Montreal 5, Washington 2
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, December 20, 2007
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Dean Morton, Kevin Pollock
Linesmen: Pat Dapuzzo, Greg Devorski
Attendance: 12670
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Montreal 1225
Washington 0112
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
18:15 - Canadiens Guillaume Latendresse (PP) Assists: Saku Koivu , Chris Higgins
Penalties
10:00 - Canadiens Josh Gorges (2) Hooking
 11:24 - Capitals Alexander Semin (2) Hooking
 18:02 - Capitals Tom Poti (2) Tripping
2nd Period
Scoring
6:33 - Canadiens Tomas Plekanec (EV) Assists: Alex Kovalev , Andrei Kostitsyn
9:10 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (PP) Assists: Alexander Ovechkin , Mike Green
17:06 - Canadiens Guillaume Latendresse (EV) Assists: Mathieu Dandenault , Maxim Lapierre
Penalties
7:24 - Canadiens Maxim Lapierre (2) Holding
 19:37 - Canadiens Saku Koivu (2) Holding
3rd Period
Scoring
9:34 - Canadiens Sergei Kostitsyn (PP) Assists: Alex Kovalev , Mark Streit
10:08 - Capitals Alexander Semin (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom
18:39 - Canadiens Mark Streit (EV) Assists: Kyle Chipchura , Francis Bouillon
Penalties
0:32 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (2) Tripping
 3:13 - Canadiens Mathieu Dandenault (2) Hooking
 7:20 - Capitals Shaone Morrisonn (2) Hooking
 8:30 - Capitals Tom Poti (2) Delay of game
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Carey Price G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Cristobal Huet G 0 0 0 0 0 59:51 49:00 4:46 6:05 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan O'Byrne D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 13:55 13:55 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tom Kostopoulos RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 11:59 9:40 0:00 2:19 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Komisarek D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 27 23:20 18:23 0:15 4:42 0 0 - - - - -
Saku Koivu C 0 1 1 E 2 0 21 16:57 11:14 3:30 2:13 0 0 - - 12 7 63
Tomas Plekanec LW 1 0 1 +1 0 1 19 17:14 15:24 1:09 0:41 0 0 - - 6 8 43
Chris Higgins C 0 1 1 E 0 2 19 17:08 13:40 1:45 1:43 0 0 - - - - -
Mathieu Dandenault D 0 1 1 +1 2 0 14 13:41 13:34 0:07 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 E 2 0 13 10:13 9:58 0:15 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alex Kovalev RW 0 2 2 +1 0 0 18 16:44 13:43 3:01 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Kyle Chipchura C 0 1 1 E 0 1 17 12:09 9:54 0:00 2:15 0 0 - - 6 3 67
Mark Streit D 1 1 2 +1 0 6 17 17:06 10:16 4:24 2:26 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Maxim Lapierre C 0 1 1 +1 2 1 14 15:14 14:34 0:07 0:33 0 0 - - 6 4 60
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 25 22:50 20:35 0:15 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Andrei Kostitsyn RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 17 14:46 12:56 1:50 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Francis Bouillon D 0 1 1 +3 0 1 21 18:45 17:15 0:07 1:23 0 0 - - - - -
Sergei Kostitsyn RW 1 0 1 E 0 1 12 11:40 10:36 1:04 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 E 0 0 26 26:29 17:53 4:31 4:05 0 0 - - - - -
Guillaume Latendresse RW 2 0 2 E 0 4 13 12:13 10:43 1:30 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Brent Johnson G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Olaf Kolzig G 0 0 0 0 0 59:47 48:56 6:05 4:46 0 0 - - - - -
Brian Pothier D 0 0 0 E 0 0 10 9:21 9:16 0:00 0:05 0 0 - - - - -
Tom Poti D 0 0 0 -2 4 1 20 20:01 16:13 0:28 3:20 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Ovechkin LW 0 1 1 -3 2 5 22 22:19 16:42 5:37 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Bradley RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 10 9:11 9:11 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Pettinger LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 19 15:08 13:32 0:43 0:53 0 0 - - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 -1 0 2 21 19:34 14:35 4:54 0:05 1 0 - - 6 10 38
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 16 11:59 10:08 1:18 0:33 0 0 - - 4 5 44
Milan Jurcina D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16 14:06 13:33 0:00 0:33 0 0 - - - - -
Viktor Kozlov RW 0 0 0 -2 0 3 18 15:04 13:48 1:11 0:05 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 +1 2 1 21 19:33 17:52 0:00 1:41 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Semin LW 1 0 1 +1 2 5 18 19:25 14:22 4:54 0:09 0 0 - - - - -
David Steckel LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 12:52 9:13 0:00 3:39 0 0 - - 7 4 64
Tomas Fleischmann C 0 0 0 +1 0 2 17 14:20 13:52 0:28 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Green C 0 1 1 E 0 7 23 30:12 23:58 6:05 0:09 0 0 - - - - -
Quintin Laing LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 13 10:38 6:39 0:00 3:59 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 21 17:55 15:01 0:00 2:54 0 0 - - - - -
Donald Brashear LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 8 9:43 9:43 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Nylander C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 20 21:35 16:39 4:47 0:09 0 0 - - 5 9 36
Goaltending
Montreal
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cristobal Huet W (32-14-6) 37 35 2 .946 0 59:51
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Olaf Kolzig L (25-21-6) 21 16 5 .762 0 59:47