Kolzig in goal, game on. Let's see if they can grab it and hang on to 1st place for a day or two (Kolzig in an interview said if they can go 2-1 or 3-0 on this SE roadtrip, they'll be in super shape for the last months of the regular season.... we shall see.).

First 2:00 I'd say tentative, both ways.

Next several minutes, all Caps when Gordon breaks in alone, Semin feeds him the puck, and.... Lehtonen stones him. It's reviewed, but the stone is upheld.

Some news today, the Caps re-signed Fleishman. Rumor says 2 years, no one has mentioned a dollar figure that I've seen.

Laughlin says "chessmatch", I say zzzzzzzzz.......

Caps to the PP with 10:39 left 1st.

And killed.

Lehtonen is the epitome of the "hot" goalie tonight, at least 3 stellar stops. The Caps already have 14 SOGs, and not one of them has been really close to going in (except Gordon's).

edit: And it's not just tonight. JB just said KL's save percentage for February is .953 ..... yikes!

0-0, end 1st.

17:04 left 2nd, Kozlov scores! Assists from Ovechkin and Backstrom!

And Atlanta comes back 1:26 later.... but it's under review! Might have been kicked in. Long looks at it by everyone....

NO GOAL!

Caps to the PP again, 11:18 left 2nd.... Dupuis picks off a pass, and chases the puck in, all alone- but Kolzig gets there first and fires it out of the zone.... killed. 

Thrash on the PP finally, but killed.

Perrin (the guy who "kicked" the puck in) uses his stick, this time...

1-1.

Lehtonen stops an easy shot, drops the puck in front of himself, and fires a 2-line saucer right to the waiting Hossa, who breaks in all alone....

2-1 Thrashers, end 2nd.

Thrash on the PP, just over 1:00 into the 3rd...

and killed. One SOG, a wicked one that Kolzig stopped.

Semin with "maybe the best pass we've seen all year" (Laughlin), to Green- he misses the net.

Caps running out of time, more HUGE saves from Lehtonen... 1:30 left in regulation... Green in the Dzone, to Backstrom at the thrash blue line, to...

OVECHKIN!!!!!!

2-2!!!!

OT...

A wicked, fast OT, with the Caps dominating the last couple of minutes.... :11.6 left in OT, faceoff in front of Lehtonen...

shootout.

I'm out.