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Monday, March 16, 2015 · First Niagara Center

Capitals 4 at Sabres 3

Final/SO

Three Stars

L 79OVR Johan Larsson Sabres First Star 1G · 4 SOG R 87OVR Tyler Ennis Sabres Second Star 1G · 4 SOG C 68OVR Evgeny Kuznetsov Capitals Third Star 1G · 8 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:02 Tyler Ennis (18) PPG Rasmus Ristolainen (8), Brian Gionta (13) · Wrist WSH 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 9:23 Curtis Glencross (13) PPG Joel Ward (14), Matt Niskanen (19) · Wrist WSH 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 10:08 Cody Hodgson (5) Tim Schaller (1) · Backhand WSH 1 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 6:09 Mike Green (6) Marcus Johansson (22), Brooks Laich (10) · Slap WSH 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 5:55 Evgeny Kuznetsov (8) PPG Matt Niskanen (20) · Wrist WSH 3 – 2 BUF
  2. 13:50 Johan Larsson (4) Chad Ruhwedel (1), Matt Moulson (24) · Tip-in WSH 3 – 3 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Evgeny Kuznetsov Deciding shootout goal · Wrist WSH 4 – 3 BUF

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 8 1 0 0 18:07 1.35
Matt Niskanen D 0 2 0 2 1 -1 26:00 1.20
Mike Green D 1 0 3 1 1 +1 21:57 1.18
Curtis Glencross L 1 0 2 0 1 0 18:23 0.95
Marcus Johansson L 0 1 0 3 1 +1 17:54 0.83
Brooks Laich C 0 1 2 0 0 0 12:14 0.78
Joel Ward R 0 1 1 1 0 -2 12:45 0.45
Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 9 3 0 0 22:30 0.37
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 3 3 1 0 22:58 0.27
John Carlson D 0 0 5 0 1 -1 26:16 0.23
Chris Conner R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 10:06 0.22
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 1 1 +1 13:34 0.20
Tom Wilson R 0 0 1 4 0 0 12:24 0.08
Troy Brouwer R 0 0 2 2 1 0 18:15 0.00
Karl Alzner D 0 0 1 0 1 -1 23:49 -0.02
Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 14:52 -0.15
Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 11:06 -0.30
Jason Chimera L 0 0 0 1 0 -2 11:16 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Braden Holtby W 33 30 3 .909 65:00 0.75

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cody Hodgson C 1 0 7 0 0 +1 14:48 1.43
Tyler Ennis R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 23:22 1.25
Johan Larsson L 1 0 4 1 1 +1 23:10 1.20
Matt Moulson L 0 1 4 1 1 +1 20:39 1.13
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 2 2 6 0 28:11 1.08
Chad Ruhwedel D 0 1 0 3 1 +2 13:13 0.98
Brian Gionta R 0 1 4 0 0 0 23:59 0.93
Tim Schaller L 0 1 1 1 0 +1 14:43 0.85
Mike Weber D 0 0 1 2 6 0 26:39 0.28
Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 1 2 1 +2 13:53 0.28
Marcus Foligno L 0 0 1 4 2 0 20:34 0.23
Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 6 0 +1 16:21 0.15
Andre Benoit D 0 0 2 0 2 -1 20:58 0.10
Phil Varone C 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:52 0.05
Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 0 4 -1 22:31 0.05
Matt Ellis L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 4:02 0.00
Zac Dalpe C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 4:35 -0.15
Jerry D'Amigo R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 5:13 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Anders Lindback O 38 35 3 .921 64:45 1.25