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April 4,2007  (Wednesday) in Atlanta,Georgia - Philips Arena	Goals/Period 1 2 3 Tot WAS 0 3 0 3 ATL 1 0 1 2	Shots 1 2 3 Tot WAS 3 15 8 26 ATL 10 11 11 32	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season WAS 1 / 3 67 / 401 (16.7%) 327 / 408 (80.1%) ATL 0 / 4 66 / 398 (16.6%) 301 / 379 (79.4%)
Start: 7:00pm Attendance: 18,783 Referees: Tim Peel, Ian Walsh Officials: Brian Mach, Brian Murphy	Washington Capitals Game #81 28-43-10 66 Pts Prev Game vs FLA Next Game vs BUF Atlanta Thrashers Game #80 41-28-11 93 Pts Prev Game vs BOS Next Game vs CAR Three Stars: (1) Alexander Ovechkin  (WAS)  (2) Brent Johnson (WAS)  (3) Garnet Exelby (ATL)

Goals 1st Period 1. ATL Ilya Kovalchuk    [40]  [c200]   ( Scott Mellanby [24] ) 01:06 2nd Period 2. WAS Boyd Gordon    [7]  [c8]   ( Matt Pettinger [17],  Steve Eminger [16] ) 10:08 3. WAS Alexander Ovechkin    [45]  [c97]   (Powerplay)   ( Bryan Muir [4],  Brian Pothier [25] ) 13:35 4. WAS Alexander Ovechkin    [46]  [c98]   (GW)   ( Boyd Gordon [22] ) 19:17 3rd Period 5. ATL Andy Sutton    [2]  [c27]   (Shorthanded)   ( Slava Kozlov [51],  Keith Tkachuk [28] ) 15:32 Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Brent Johnson Career WAS W 60 2 32 30 6-15-7 3.63 Kari Lehtonen Career ATL L 59 3 26 23 33-24-9 2.81

Penalties 1st Period 1. WAS Steve Eminger [8] Hooking 2 02:21 2. WAS Shaone Morrisonn [3] Slashing 2 13:05 2nd Period 3. ATL Eric Belanger [6] Hooking 2 12:45 3rd Period 4. ATL Eric Boulton [2] High Sticking 4 12:50 5. WAS Brooks Laich [2] Delay of Game 2 18:30 6. WAS Milan Jurcina [1] Slashing 2 19:15

Faceoffs
Washington Capitals   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Boyd Gordon 6 9 40.0% 623 576 52.0% Kris Beech 6 8 42.9% 355 376 48.6% Brooks Laich 6 6 50.0% 285 264 51.9% Dave Steckel 5 5 50.0% 23 12 65.7% Jiri Novotny 3 3 50.0% 242 277 46.6%   26 31 45.6% 2498 2522 49.8%	Atlanta Thrashers   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Eric Belanger 11 9 55.0% 619 539 53.5% Keith Tkachuk 11 7 61.1% 496 489 50.4% Bobby Holik 4 5 44.4% 798 600 57.1% Jim Slater 4 2 66.7% 197 167 54.1% Brad Larsen 0 2 .0% 30 48 38.5% J.P. Vigier 1 1 50.0% 10 22 31.2%   31 26 54.4% 2591 2311 52.9%

Washington Capitals Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Brian Pothier D 253 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 23:44 3:10 1:45 8 Alexander Ovechkin LW 162 2 0 2 -1 0 4 0 1 19:43 3:55 0:00 10 Matt Bradley RW 333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:03 0:00 0:04 13 Jiri Novotny C 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:12 0:06 0:00 15 Boyd Gordon RW-C 136 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 20:32 0:21 3:43 17 Chris Clark RW 429 0 0 0 -2 0 4 0 1 18:57 2:48 1:36 18 Matt Pettinger LW 277 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 16:51 0:37 1:25 21 Brooks Laich C 150 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 14:48 0:58 1:16 23 Milan Jurcina D 120 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 22:04 1:40 3:00 24 Kris Beech C 172 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 13:06 2:58 0:04 25 Dave Steckel LW 11 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 19:22 0:36 2:45 26 Shaone Morrisonn D 201 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 18:54 0:54 2:40 38 Jakub Klepis RW 66 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:06 0:40 0:00 43 Tomas Fleischmann C-LW 42 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10:28 1:25 0:00 44 Steve Eminger D 191 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 2 21:38 0:46 1:24 47 Bryan Muir D 278 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 0 18:54 3:10 1:25 52 Mike Green C 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:17 0:00 0:00 87 Donald Brashear LW 845 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 8:48 0:00 0:00   4119 3 5 8 0 8 26 10 9

Atlanta Thrashers Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Garnet Exelby D 217 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 5 16:34 0:00 1:21 7 Greg de Vries D 728 0 0 0 -1 0 4 2 0 20:05 1:37 1:21 8 Keith Tkachuk LW 974 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 17:15 3:39 0:42 9 Pascal Dupuis LW 355 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 0 17:11 0:05 1:12 11 J.P. Vigier RW 212 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 6:56 0:00 1:03 13 Slava Kozlov LW 961 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 22:10 2:20 0:47 16 Bobby Holik C 1168 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 14:08 0:05 0:09 17 Ilya Kovalchuk LW 385 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 12:53 3:48 0:00 18 Marian Hossa RW 627 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 0 23:36 3:55 1:57 19 Scott Mellanby RW 1430 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 14:20 2:47 0:00 22 Eric Belanger C 401 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 3 20:38 1:46 2:07 23 Jim Slater C 143 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7:22 0:00 0:00 25 Andy Sutton D 430 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 1 15:57 0:05 0:39 28 Niclas Havelid D 467 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 23:31 3:03 2:39 29 Brad Larsen LW 230 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:14 0:00 1:21 34 Shane Hnidy D 334 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 14:54 1:20 0:39 36 Eric Boulton LW 266 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 7:34 0:00 0:09 77 Alexei Zhitnik D 1018 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 27:27 4:10 2:39   11421 2 3 5 -1 6 32 13 19

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