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» Washington Capitals 3 Buffalo Sabres 1

March 5,2008 (Wednesday)
in Buffalo,New York - HSBC Arena

Goals/Period	1	2	3	Tot
WAS	1	1	1	3
BUF	0	1	0	1

Shots	1	2	3	Tot
WAS	7	10	6	23
BUF	8	5	13	26

PowerPlay	PP Game	PP Season	PK Season
WAS	0 / 1	52 / 276 (18.8%)	232 / 288 (80.6%)
BUF	1 / 5	56 / 293 (19.1%)	238 / 285 (83.5%)

Start: 7:30pm
Attendance: 18,690
Referees: Eric Furlatt, Chris Lee
Officials: David Brisebois, Scott Driscoll

Washington Capitals	Game #68	32-32-4	68 Pts	Prev Game vs BOS	Next Game at BOS
Buffalo Sabres	Game #68	32-27-9	73 Pts	Prev Game vs PHI	Next Game vs CAR

Three Stars: (1) Alexander Ovechkin (WAS) (2) Nicklas Backstrom (WAS) (3) Maxim Afinogenov (BUF)

Goals

1st Period
1.	WAS	Alexander Ovechkin [53] [c151] ( Nicklas BACKSTROM [47], Olaf Kolzig [2] )	15:21
2nd Period
2.	BUF	Ales Kotalik [20] [c98] (Powerplay) ( Jason Pominville [40], Jaroslav Spacek [22] )	12:37
3.	WAS	Nicklas BACKSTROM [11] [c11] (GW) ( Viktor Kozlov [29] )	13:27
3rd Period
4.	WAS	Alexander Ovechkin [54] [c152] ( Viktor Kozlov [30], Milan Jurcina [8] )	13:19

Goalies

Goalie	Career	Team	Decision	Min	GA	Shots	Saves	Record	sGAA
Olaf Kolzig	Career	WAS	W	60	1	26	25	23-20-6	2.92
Ryan Miller	Career	BUF	L	59	3	23	20	30-22-7	2.46

Penalties

1st Period
1.	WAS	Mike Green	[8]	Hooking	2	1:08
2.	WAS	Jeff Schultz	[1]	Interference	2	12:37
2nd Period
3.	WAS	Jeff Schultz	[4]	Hooking	2	11:09
3rd Period
4.	WAS	Alexander Ovechkin	[4]	Tripping	2	1:22
5.	WAS	Tom Poti	[2]	Interference	2	7:25
6.	BUF	Ales Kotalik	[3]	Holding	2	19:41

Faceoffs

Washington Capitals
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Boyd Gordon	10	2	83.3%	392	317	55.3%
Nicklas Backstrom	7	4	63.6%	342	402	46.0%
Dave Steckel	5	5	50.0%	507	393	56.3%
Sergei Fedorov	6	3	66.7%	409	327	55.6%
Brooks Laich	2	1	66.7%	204	227	47.3%
Donald Brashear	0	1	.0%	0	1	.0%
Viktor Kozlov	1	0	100.0%	186	216	46.3%
Matt Bradley	0	1	.0%	12	14	46.2%

	31	17	64.6%	1993	1920	50.9%

Buffalo Sabres
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Derek Roy	6	9	40.0%	537	546	49.6%
Paul Gaustad	3	7	30.0%	538	444	54.8%
Adam Mair	3	5	37.5%	120	147	44.9%
Ales Kotalik	3	4	42.9%	70	81	46.4%
Clarke MacArthur	2	4	33.3%	4	10	28.6%
Thomas Vanek	0	1	.0%	6	6	50.0%
Drew Stafford	0	1	.0%	7	7	50.0%

	17	31	35.4%	1839	1979	48.2%

Washington Capitals Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
3	Tom Poti	D	651	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	23:07	0:19	5:27
4	John Erskine	D	214	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	4	16:31	0:00	2:24
8	Alexander Ovechkin	LW	231	2	0	2	3	2	4	0	5	20:05	0:00	0:00
10	Matt Bradley	RW	397	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	14:40	0:00	2:29
14	Eric Fehr	RW	36	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7:20	0:00	0:00
15	Boyd Gordon	RW-C	190	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	16:36	0:00	4:31
19	Nicklas Backstrom	C	68	1	1	2	3	0	3	0	1	18:34	0:00	0:11
21	Brooks Laich	C	219	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	16:32	0:19	3:51
23	Milan Jurcina	D	182	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	14:34	0:00	1:57
24	Matt Cooke	LW	568	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	10:13	0:00	0:00
25	Viktor Kozlov	C-LW	816	0	2	2	3	0	2	0	0	16:37	0:00	0:11
26	Shaone Morrisonn	D	266	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	25:20	0:00	5:54
28	Alexander Semin	LW	178	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13:41	0:19	0:00
39	Dave Steckel	LW	79	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	13:00	0:00	4:15
52	Mike Green	C	92	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	23:26	0:19	1:07
55	Jeff Schultz	D	96	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	18:02	0:00	2:07
87	Donald Brashear	LW	913	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7:26	0:00	0:00
91	Sergei Fedorov	C	1182	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	14:48	0:19	3:28

			6556	3	5	8	15	10	23	10	24

Buffalo Sabres Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
4	Nolan Pratt	D	578	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	14:43	0:00	0:00
5	Toni Lydman	D	497	0	0	0	-3	0	0	2	2	18:09	1:28	0:19
6	Jaroslav Spacek	D	616	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	23:39	6:10	0:19
9	Derek Roy	C	257	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	23:05	5:53	0:00
12	Ales Kotalik	RW	355	1	0	1	0	2	4	0	3	17:01	4:43	0:00
20	Daniel Paille	LW-C	105	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	10:25	0:00	0:19
21	Drew Stafford	RW	91	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	2	17:42	3:35	0:00
22	Adam Mair	C	391	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	8:47	0:00	0:00
26	Thomas Vanek	LW	230	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	1	21:20	5:30	0:00
28	Paul Gaustad	C	200	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	4	17:23	3:58	0:19
29	Jason Pominville	RW	207	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	18:11	6:07	0:00
36	Patrick Kaleta	RW	34	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	8:09	0:00	0:00
38	Nathan Paetsch	D	114	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	16:10	0:00	0:00
41	Clarke MacArthur	LW-C	56	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	14:02	1:50	0:00
44	Andrej Sekera	D	25	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	19:10	0:00	0:00
45	Dmitri Kalinin	D	463	0	0	0	-3	0	2	1	3	19:55	3:21	0:00
56	Steve Bernier	RW	164	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	3	13:45	0:00	0:00
61	Maxim Afinogenov	RW	506	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	4	19:24	4:45	0:00

			5303	1	2	3	-15	2	26	13	33

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