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» Washington Capitals 4 Minnesota Wild 1

February 26,2008 (Tuesday)
in Washington,DC - Verizon Center

Goals/Period	1	2	3	Tot
MIN	0	1	0	1
WAS	2	2	0	4

Shots	1	2	3	Tot
MIN	15	12	8	35
WAS	12	9	5	26

PowerPlay	PP Game	PP Season	PK Season
MIN	0 / 2	48 / 258 (18.6%)	219 / 258 (84.9%)
WAS	0 / 2	46 / 260 (17.7%)	218 / 271 (80.4%)

Start: 7:00pm
Attendance: 17,391
Referees: Marc Joannette, Francois StLaurent
Officials: Tim Nowak, Michel Cormier

Minnesota Wild	Game #63	35-25-3	73 Pts	Prev Game vs CGY	Next Game at TB
Washington Capitals	Game #64	29-27-8	66 Pts	Prev Game at NJ	Next Game vs NJ

Three Stars: (1) Brooks Laich (WAS) (2) Olaf Kolzig (WAS) (3) Tom Poti (WAS)

Goals

1st Period
1.	WAS	Brooks Laich [12] [c27] ( Tomas Fleischmann [18], Milan Jurcina [7] )	2:41
2.	WAS	Shaone Morrisonn [1] [c6] (GW) ( Brooks Laich [9], Jeff Schultz [9] )	10:11
2nd Period
3.	MIN	Branko Radivojevic [4] [c49] ( Eric Belanger [23], Stephane Veilleux [6] )	13:10
4.	WAS	Eric Fehr [1] [c3] ( Tom Poti [17], Brooks Laich [10] )	15:59
5.	WAS	Brooks Laich [13] [c28] ( Tomas Fleischmann [19], Mike Green [25] )	18:27
3rd Period
No Goals

Goalies

Goalie	Career	Team	Decision	Min	GA	Shots	Saves	Record	sGAA
Niklas Backstrom	Career	MIN	L	60	4	26	22	23-12-4	2.53
Olaf Kolzig	Career	WAS	W	60	1	35	34	22-19-6	2.98

Penalties

1st Period
1.	WAS	Steve Eminger	[1]	Elbowing	2	14:54
2nd Period
2.	MIN	Aaron Voros	[12]	Fighting	5	9:18
3.	WAS	Dave Steckel	[2]	Fighting	5	9:18
4.	MIN	Aaron Voros	[13]	Fighting	5	18:19
5.	WAS	Matt Bradley	[8]	Fighting	5	18:19
3rd Period
6.	MIN	Stephane Veilleux	[4]	Hooking	2	3:37
7.	WAS	Tom Poti	[2]	High Sticking	2	7:00
8.	MIN	Sean Hill	[1]	Delaying Game-Puck over glass	2	13:19

Faceoffs

Minnesota Wild
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Mikko Koivu	10	6	62.5%	348	330	51.3%
Eric Belanger	10	5	66.7%	497	516	49.1%
Pavol Demitra	5	8	38.5%	307	381	44.6%
James Sheppard	2	7	22.2%	193	286	40.3%
Branko Radivojevic	0	1	.0%	12	16	42.9%
Brian Rolston	1	0	100.0%	50	77	39.4%
Marian Gaborik	1	0	100.0%	4	9	30.8%

	29	27	51.8%	1674	1902	46.8%

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

Boyd Gordon	7	11	38.9%	356	298	54.4%
Brooks Laich	7	7	50.0%	198	220	47.4%
Nicklas Backstrom	5	8	38.5%	327	383	46.1%
Dave Steckel	8	1	88.9%	481	377	56.1%
Alexander Ovechkin	0	2	.0%	5	11	31.2%

	27	29	48.2%	1871	1836	50.5%

Minnesota Wild Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
5	Kim Johnsson	D	579	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	18:09	0:09	1:45
6	Sean Hill	D	865	0	0	0	-2	2	1	2	2	13:14	0:02	0:00
8	Brent Burns	D-RW	248	0	0	0	-1	0	3	2	0	21:30	1:32	2:06
9	Mikko Koivu	C	185	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	1	14:35	1:34	1:17
10	Marian Gaborik	RW	466	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	19:10	2:39	1:25
12	Brian Rolston	RW-C	958	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	1	20:35	2:46	1:17
15	James Sheppard	LW-C	61	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	10:36	0:00	0:00
17	Todd Fedoruk	LW	404	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	11:50	2:24	0:00
19	Stephane Veilleux	LW	264	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	3	15:15	0:02	0:48
25	Eric Belanger	C	466	0	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	17:16	0:02	1:18
26	Kurtis Foster	D	167	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	20:17	0:58	0:09
33	Petteri Nummelin	D	137	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	1	15:23	2:24	0:00
34	Aaron Voros	F	46	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	2	6:12	1:19	0:00
38	Pavol Demitra	RW	732	0	0	0	-1	0	3	4	0	18:23	2:31	1:18
41	Martin Skoula	D	625	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	2	22:33	0:02	1:54
55	Nick Schultz	D	430	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	1	19:02	0:00	2:06
92	Branko Radivojevic	RW	374	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	13:31	0:02	0:37
96	Pierre-Marc Bouchard	C	336	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	18:29	1:34	0:00

			7677	1	2	3	-15	14	35	14	14

Washington Capitals Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
3	Tom Poti	D	647	0	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	20:37	2:29	0:55
8	Alexander Ovechkin	LW	227	0	0	0	-1	0	4	1	0	23:35	2:47	0:02
10	Matt Bradley	RW	393	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	10:04	0:00	0:00
14	Eric Fehr	RW	33	1	0	1	4	0	3	0	1	11:58	1:13	0:00
15	Boyd Gordon	RW-C	186	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	15:55	0:00	2:40
19	Nicklas Backstrom	C	64	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	20:17	2:47	0:02
21	Brooks Laich	C	215	2	2	4	4	0	3	1	0	16:04	1:55	1:37
23	Milan Jurcina	D	178	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	3	18:20	0:00	1:43
26	Shaone Morrisonn	D	262	1	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	21:14	0:00	2:36
28	Alexander Semin	LW	174	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	21:49	2:47	0:00
39	Dave Steckel	LW	75	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	12:03	0:00	2:21
43	Tomas Fleischmann	C-LW	103	0	2	2	4	0	1	1	1	12:25	1:13	0:00
44	Steve Eminger	D	206	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	15:49	0:49	0:00
52	Mike Green	C	88	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	1	25:31	3:11	0:48
53	Quintin Laing	LW	38	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	10:42	0:00	1:18
55	Jeff Schultz	D	92	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	18:03	0:49	1:58
56	Chris Bourque	LW-RW	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	9:48	0:00	0:00
87	Donald Brashear	LW	909	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	11:46	0:00	0:00

			4404	4	8	12	15	14	26	18	10

Transactions Since last game)

Minnesota Wild Transactions

Feb 26,2008 - Chris Simon traded

Washington Capitals Transactions

Feb 26,2008 - Alexandre Giroux traded
Feb 26,2008 - Matt Cooke traded
Feb 26,2008 - Cristobal Huet traded
Feb 26,2008 - Sergei Fedorov traded
Feb 26,2008 - Alexandre Giroux assigned to Hershey