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December 17,2007  (Monday) in Detroit,Michigan - Joe Louis Arena	Goals/Period 1 2 3 4 Tot WAS 2 0 1 0 3 DET 1 1 1 0 4	Shots 1 2 3 4 Tot WAS 12 9 8 1 30 DET 11 11 6 2 30	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season WAS 2 / 7 25 / 151 (16.6%) 128 / 156 (82.1%) DET 2 / 4 38 / 162 (23.5%) 141 / 164 (86.0%)
Start: 7:00pm Attendance: 19,483 Referees: Marc Joannette, Brad Watson Officials: Andy McElman, Steve Barton	Washington Capitals Game #34 13-19-2 28 Pts Prev Game at TB Next Game vs MON Detroit Red Wings Game #33 24-6-3 51 Pts Prev Game at FLA Next Game at LA Three Stars: (1) Tomas Holmstrom  (DET)  (2) Pavel Datsyuk (DET)  (3) Henrik Zetterberg (DET)

Goals 1st Period 1. DET Tomas Holmstrom    [15]  [c170]   (Powerplay)   ( Nicklas Lidstrom [25],  Pavel Datsyuk [26] ) 3:57 2. WAS Alexander Ovechkin    [24]  [c122]   (Powerplay)   ( Michael Nylander [21] ) 9:58 3. WAS Jeff Schultz    [5]  [c5]   ( Matt Bradley [4],  Quintin Laing [1] ) 19:34 2nd Period 4. DET Henrik Zetterberg    [24]  [c133]   (Powerplay)   ( Pavel Datsyuk [27],  Nicklas Lidstrom [26] ) 10:26 3rd Period 5. DET Tomas Holmstrom    [16]  [c171]   ( Pavel Datsyuk [28],  Henrik Zetterberg [23] ) 15:17 6. WAS Alexander Semin    [3]  [c51]   (Powerplay)   ( Tom Poti [11] ) 18:26 Shootout Results 1.  DET  Pavel Datsyuk scored. 2.  WAS  Viktor Kozlov missed. 3.  DET  Henrik Zetterberg scored. Winner 4.  WAS  Alexander Semin scored. 5.  DET  Jiri Hudler scored. Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Olaf Kolzig Career WAS OTL 65 3 30 27 10-14-2 2.88 Dominik Hasek Career DET W 65 3 30 27 9-5-1 2.50

Penalties 1st Period 1. WAS Michael Nylander [8] Hooking 2 2:01 2. DET Jiri Hudler [1] Holding 2 9:56 3. DET Nicklas Lidstrom [6] Hooking 2 11:26 2nd Period 4. WAS Viktor Kozlov [1] Hooking 2 3:52 5. WAS Donald Brashear [3] Roughing 2 9:41 6. DET Johan Franzen [1] Boarding 2 12:06 7. WAS Brian Pothier [2] Tripping 2 15:07 8. DET Andreas Lilja [2] Tripping 2 18:42 3rd Period 9. DET Chris Chelios [2] High Sticking 2 0:55 10. DET Henrik Zetterberg [4] Tripping 2 3:12 11. DET Pavel Datsyuk [1] Delay of game - Puck over Glass 2 17:06

Faceoffs
Washington Capitals   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Michael Nylander 6 11 35.3% 193 198 49.4% Dave Steckel 13 3 81.3% 247 213 53.7% Nicklas Backstrom 6 8 42.9% 93 134 41.0% Brooks Laich 2 6 25.0% 70 84 45.5% Viktor Kozlov 0 2 .0% 139 149 48.3% Alexander Ovechkin 0 1 .0% 1 2 33.3% Quintin Laing 1 0 100.0% 1 2 33.3%   28 31 47.5% 943 958 49.6%	Detroit Red Wings   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Henrik Zetterberg 9 10 47.4% 336 270 55.4% Johan Franzen 12 3 80.0% 70 61 53.4% Valtteri Filppula 3 8 27.3% 173 165 51.2% Pavel Datsyuk 3 4 42.9% 113 90 55.7% Tomas Kopecky 1 2 33.3% 13 13 50.0% Daniel Cleary 3 0 100.0% 45 43 51.1% Dallas Drake 0 1 .0% 6 8 42.9%   31 28 52.5% 1030 854 54.7%

Washington Capitals Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Brian Pothier D 287 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 1 19:44 2:58 1:10 3 Tom Poti D 622 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 23:44 3:58 4:15 8 Alexander Ovechkin LW 197 1 0 1 -1 0 5 0 2 26:08 8:22 0:00 10 Matt Bradley RW 363 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 7:19 0:00 0:34 18 Matt Pettinger LW 311 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 0 16:43 2:10 1:55 19 Nicklas Backstrom C 34 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 2 23:10 7:48 0:00 21 Brooks Laich C 185 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14:35 0:47 2:20 23 Milan Jurcina D 150 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 11:43 0:08 0:00 25 Viktor Kozlov C-LW 783 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 14:16 3:34 0:00 26 Shaone Morrisonn D 236 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 22:25 0:18 4:15 28 Alexander Semin LW 146 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 20:53 8:06 0:44 39 Dave Steckel LW 46 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 14:19 0:00 4:08 43 Tomas Fleischmann C-LW 74 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 15:12 2:55 0:00 52 Mike Green C 58 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 27:23 7:41 1:07 53 Quintin Laing LW 12 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 4 11:48 0:00 3:35 55 Jeff Schultz D 65 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 17:23 0:00 2:29 87 Donald Brashear LW 880 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 6:47 0:00 0:00 92 Michael Nylander C 838 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 19:50 8:05 0:00   6339 3 4 7 0 8 30 6 17

Detroit Red Wings Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 3 Andreas Lilja D 351 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 18:48 0:00 4:16 5 Nicklas Lidstrom D 1209 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 27:49 4:08 6:12 8 Matt Ellis C 37 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5:10 0:00 0:00 11 Daniel Cleary RW 510 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 22:22 2:35 5:20 13 Pavel Datsyuk C 396 0 3 3 1 2 0 0 0 23:14 4:08 4:11 17 Dallas Drake RW 970 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 2 12:01 0:00 2:38 20 Aaron Downey RW 204 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2:26 0:00 0:00 22 Brett Lebda D 153 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 16:59 0:37 0:00 24 Chris Chelios D 1578 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 19:23 0:00 7:10 26 Jiri Hudler F 125 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 13:13 2:30 0:00 28 Brian Rafalski D 574 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 0 22:48 4:03 1:28 37 Mikael Samuelsson RW 341 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 13:53 2:35 0:00 40 Henrik Zetterberg LW 313 1 1 2 0 2 9 0 1 24:36 4:08 4:06 51 Valtteri Filppula C 110 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 17:06 0:47 2:09 55 Niklas Kronwall D 144 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 2 21:54 1:53 3:38 82 Tomas Kopecky RW 56 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 8:20 0:00 0:00 93 Johan Franzen C 172 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 21:56 1:43 4:20 96 Tomas Holmstrom LW 730 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 2 16:50 4:03 0:00   8888 3 6 9 0 14 30 4 27

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