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39 for 37 – Caps goaltender Cristobal Huet earned the game’s No. 1 legend designation by stopping 22 of the 40 shots in goal he faced. California surrendered just five images in the first period of the overall game, and at that point the Caps had allowed a mere Twenty-six shots in their previous 6-8 periods of hockey, the same as two full games.
Boston arrived firing in the second frame and the Caps’ penalty trouble resulted in 16 shots against. The particular Bruins fired 17 more within the third and added several in overtime.
Huet successfully ended nine shots during a period of just 3:56 in the center of the third period when the video game was even 1-1 and a mistake could possibly have left the Caps without any points instead of the two many people ended up getting.
In five commences since joining the Capitals,
Huet is now 3-2 with a shutout, a 1.69 goals against average plus a .940 save pct. He has authorized eight goals in individuals five starts, and only about three of them have come at even-strength.
Small Immediately – Sunday’s win was Washington’s third in succession, the longest winning run as it reeled off four in a row through Jan. 15-21.
Five Up – Sunday’s earn raised Washington’s record for you to 35-30-8 on the season. It is the Capitals’ high-water indicate for the 2007-08 season,
and scars the first time they’ve been several games above what goes for “.500” in the modern NHL since they were 15-10-7 after the win over Philadelphia on 12. 16, 2006.
Two-Man Magic – The Caps scored their 3rd goal of the season with the two-man advantage on Sunday. Washington has now obtained three goals in Twenty tries this season with the two-man edge on a span of 17:31st.
Five On the Floor – When the Caps won their 5-on-3 goal on Saturday, they did so with a few forwards on the ice. Sergei Fedorov, Alex Ovechkin,
Nicklas Backstrom, Brooks Laich and Alexander Semin were the five Washington skaters on the ice.
The Caps had been slated to have the two-man advantage for just a total of 39 seconds, but needed just 26 of those ticks to mild the lamp.
First for Fedorov – Fedorov possesses played some sublime handbags since joining the Capitals in a Feb. 26 trade with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Yet his goal against the Bruins about Sunday was his initial goal in nine activities in a Washington uniform, and the 471st tally of his NHL career.
Sunday marked the fourth straight sport in which Fedorov’s ice time has gone up. The 38-year-old center skated 22:48 in Sunday’s recreation, his highest ice occasion figure this season and the most he has skated since logging 30:04 on Apr. 6, 2007 in the Blue Jackets’ last regular season game of last season.
Baked Goods – Turnovers were troublesome for the Caps on Weekend. The official game sheet listed 21 turnovers, the most the Truck caps have committed in any one particular game since they coughed up Twenty two pucks in a Feb. 20 shootout damage to the New York Islanders.
Firing Squad – Boston ma fired 40 shots in the Washington net on Sunday, the most the Caps have experienced in a game since they experienced 42 in a 6-3 loss for the Hurricanes at Carolina on February. 23. Sunday’s shot full was the most Washington has faced in a home game in many than a year.
The last time the actual Caps saw as many as Forty five shots on goal in Verizon Center was with Mar. 9, 2007 any time Carolina fired 45 times in a 3-0 Hurricanes win.
Climbing the Chart – With his assist on Fedorov’azines first period goal, Nicklas Backstrom took over as the fifth rookie in Lids history to record 59 or more points in a time. Backstrom is now tied with Bengt Gustafsson – his former coach on the Remedial national team – for 4th on that list Gustafsson had 59 points as a freshman in 1979-80.
Only Alex Ovechkin (106 points in 2005-06), Bob Contractor (67 points in 1981-82) and also Chris Valentine (67 details in 1981-82) have had more details as a Washington rookie.
Sunday’azines assist enabled Backstrom to keep pace with Chicago’s Patrick Kane, who also had one point on Sunday. Kane currently leads Backstrom by simply two points in the NHL’s rookie scoring race.
The Follow – The Caps got some assistance from the Penguins early on Sunday, as soon as Pittsburgh blasted the Flyers 7-1. Losing kept Philadelphia stalled from 80 points in 8th place in the Eastern Meeting standings.