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Thursday, January 1, 2009 · Verizon Center

Lightning 4 at Capitals 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 99OVR Alex Ovechkin Capitals First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG R 49OVR Matt Bradley Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG R 97OVR Martin St. Louis Lightning Third Star 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:58 Sean Collins (1) Alex Ovechkin (25), Shaone Morrisonn (3) · Wrist TBL 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 8:02 David Steckel (5) Matt Bradley (3), Milan Jurcina (7) · Tip-in TBL 0 – 2 WSH
  3. 18:29 Mike Green (9) Alex Ovechkin (26), Nicklas Backstrom (32) · Wrist TBL 0 – 3 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:58 Vincent Lecavalier (15) Vinny Prospal (12), Martin St. Louis (20) · Wrist TBL 1 – 3 WSH
  2. 2:37 Ryan Malone (9) Jeff Halpern (1) · Wrist TBL 2 – 3 WSH
  3. 2:48 Matt Bradley (4) Boyd Gordon (7) · Backhand TBL 2 – 4 WSH
  4. 19:44 Vincent Lecavalier (16) Vinny Prospal (13), Martin St. Louis (21) · Wrist TBL 3 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 8:07 Boyd Gordon (5) Unassisted · Wrist TBL 3 – 5 WSH
  2. 12:22 Mark Recchi (9) Martin St. Louis (22), Andrej Meszaros (10) · Wrist TBL 4 – 5 WSH
  3. 12:47 Chris Clark (1) Michael Nylander (15), Mike Green (16) · Wrist TBL 4 – 6 WSH
  4. 18:14 Alex Ovechkin (26) Nicklas Backstrom (33) · Snap TBL 4 – 7 WSH

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin St. Louis R 0 3 2 0 0 -1 18:32 1.88
Vincent Lecavalier C 2 0 5 2 0 -1 18:47 1.78
Vinny Prospal L 0 2 2 1 1 -1 18:33 1.15
Ryan Malone L 1 0 2 2 0 0 15:48 0.90
Jeff Halpern C 0 1 2 3 2 -1 16:25 0.73
Mark Recchi R 1 0 1 0 0 -2 14:44 0.53
Andrej Meszaros D 0 1 0 2 3 -2 24:16 0.33
Jussi Jokinen L 0 0 2 1 2 0 13:59 0.25
Paul Szczechura C 0 0 2 1 3 -1 15:13 0.15
Jamie Heward D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 10:52 0.15
Vladimir Mihalik D 0 0 1 1 2 0 13:22 0.13
Matt Pettinger L 0 0 1 0 1 0 10:43 0.08
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 3 1 0 -1 12:20 0.07
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 1 3 -1 21:42 -0.05
Evgeny Artyukhin R 0 0 1 4 0 -1 14:59 -0.08
Adam Hall R 0 0 2 2 1 0 8:32 -0.18
Steve Eminger D 0 0 0 1 2 -2 23:51 -0.20
Matt Smaby D 0 0 1 6 2 -2 21:22 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Smith L 35 28 7 .800 60:00 -2.45

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Ovechkin L 1 2 4 3 2 0 22:26 2.25
Matt Bradley R 1 1 2 2 0 +3 16:21 1.88
Boyd Gordon C 1 1 1 0 1 +2 11:36 1.70
Mike Green D 1 1 2 0 1 +2 24:30 1.63
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 2 1 +1 19:27 1.60
Milan Jurcina D 0 1 2 0 2 +1 19:28 0.98
David Steckel C 1 0 2 1 0 0 12:43 0.90
Sean Collins D 1 0 1 1 1 0 14:18 0.88
Chris Clark R 1 0 3 1 2 +1 11:30 0.85
Michael Nylander C 0 1 2 0 0 0 17:08 0.78
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 1 0 2 1 0 14:54 0.68
Alexandre Giroux L 0 0 2 1 1 +3 9:36 0.60
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 2 1 2 +2 20:53 0.55
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 1 1 1 +1 17:41 0.22
Karl Alzner D 0 0 1 0 2 +1 20:52 0.22
Eric Fehr C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 11:17 0.10
Chris Bourque L 0 0 2 0 0 0 10:45 0.10
Brooks Laich C 0 0 4 2 0 -1 20:35 0.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Brent Johnson W 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70