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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 · Madison Square Garden

Capitals 5 at Rangers 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 99OVR Alex Ovechkin Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 13 SOG · 4 HIT C 80OVR Chris Drury Rangers Second Star 3A · 1 SOG R 82OVR Ryan Callahan Rangers Third Star 2G · 5 SOG · 4 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:38 Markus Naslund (13) Nikolay Zherdev (21), Scott Gomez (17) · Backhand WSH 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 11:04 Michal Rozsival (5) Chris Drury (11) · Slap WSH 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 11:15 Ryan Callahan (10) Chris Drury (12), Nigel Dawes (5) · Snap WSH 0 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 4:48 Ryan Callahan (11) Nigel Dawes (6), Chris Drury (13) · Wrist WSH 0 – 4 NYR
  2. 12:35 Alex Ovechkin (21) Nicklas Backstrom (25) · Wrist WSH 1 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 1:41 Tomas Fleischmann (12) PPG Nicklas Backstrom (26), Brooks Laich (11) · Slap WSH 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 7:04 Viktor Kozlov (8) PPG Nicklas Backstrom (27), Alex Ovechkin (24) · Snap WSH 3 – 4 NYR
  3. 12:38 Alex Ovechkin (22) Unassisted · Wrist WSH 4 – 4 NYR

Overtime

  1. 0:59 Shaone Morrisonn (1) Michael Nylander (14), Sean Collins (1) · Slap WSH 5 – 4 NYR

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Ovechkin L 2 1 13 4 0 -1 22:02 3.05
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 3 1 3 1 -1 20:41 1.85
Shaone Morrisonn D 1 0 2 2 2 +1 19:03 1.15
Michael Nylander C 0 1 2 0 1 +1 17:41 1.08
Sean Collins D 0 1 1 1 2 +1 16:18 0.95
Tomas Fleischmann L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 14:09 0.80
Viktor Kozlov C 1 0 1 2 1 -2 19:52 0.68
Brooks Laich C 0 1 2 3 0 -1 16:07 0.63
Bryan Helmer D 0 0 2 2 1 +1 20:53 0.35
Alexandre Giroux L 0 0 3 4 0 0 14:22 0.22
Boyd Gordon C 0 0 2 0 0 0 14:38 0.20
Eric Fehr C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 15:51 0.13
Matt Bradley R 0 0 1 1 0 0 11:29 0.08
David Steckel C 0 0 1 6 0 0 11:56 0.08
Andrew Gordon R 0 0 1 1 0 0 7:12 0.08
Tyler Sloan D 0 0 0 4 1 +1 16:24 0.05
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 2 1 -3 21:28 -0.40
Milan Jurcina D 0 0 1 2 1 -3 18:01 -0.48
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Brent Johnson — 3 3 0 1.000 8:45 0.30
Jose Theodore W 25 21 4 .840 52:03 -0.90

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Drury C 0 3 1 0 0 +1 19:08 2.15
Ryan Callahan R 2 0 5 4 0 +1 18:51 2.03
Nigel Dawes L 0 2 0 3 0 +2 11:52 1.60
Michal Rozsival D 1 0 5 1 4 0 22:34 1.18
Scott Gomez C 0 1 4 1 0 0 19:39 0.93
Markus Naslund L 1 0 2 2 0 0 18:29 0.85
Nikolay Zherdev R 0 1 4 1 0 0 18:13 0.83
Paul Mara D 0 0 1 1 2 +2 20:13 0.48
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 2 0 +2 17:42 0.35
Brandon Dubinsky C 0 0 2 5 0 0 15:49 0.20
Marc Staal D 0 0 1 4 0 0 20:43 0.13
Colton Orr R 0 0 1 0 0 0 7:06 0.08
Lauri Korpikoski L 0 0 0 3 0 0 9:58 0.05
Aaron Voros L 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:54 0.00
Blair Betts C 0 0 1 1 1 0 10:20 -0.02
Fredrik Sjostrom L 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:05 -0.02
Wade Redden D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 20:57 -0.10
Dan Girardi D 0 0 0 3 3 -1 19:57 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Henrik Lundqvist O 36 31 5 .861 60:59 -0.65