Huet in goal, no Brashear (injury)....

Caps to the PP exactly 3:00 gone.

Nothing.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz at the 9:30 remaining point, Boulton hits the crossbar but no goal....

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Thrash to the PP with 7:23 left 1st....  and they do zippy. back to ES....

OVECHKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4:42 left 1st!!!!

Assists from Backstrom and Kozlov.... now, the same line with a great shift, keeping the puck in for what seems like forever... the Thrash finally clear, and Huet with a stop...

1-0 Caps, end 1st.

 

Thrash tie it up on a PPG.

1-1

Caps on the PP, but Slater with the takeaway, breakaway, and SHG.....

2-1 Thrashers at 12:03 left 2nd.

3:54 left 2nd, Slater again....

3-1 Thrashers, end 2nd.

End of second. Terrible, but it ain't over.

Meanwhile, Buffalo is trailing 3-1 with 1 minute left to the second period (good), and Philadelphia is leading 1-0 with 12 minutes left to the last period (not good).

Flyers-Rangers tied at 3-3 now.... Sabres still down....

Caps still losing.

8:30 left....

OVECHKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3-2!!

Flyers won the shootout.

SOGs in the 3rd.... 20-1, Caps.....

Caps have about 5 minutes left to tie the game. At least, in this game, they can give a point to the Thrashers, it doesn't matter. But they better not give any to the Hurricanes and the Panthers when they meet them, if they're still in the playoff race by then.

Wow! Just wow!

3-3

I say that, but actually...

BACKSTROM SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES!!!!!!! 3-3.

Assists to Green and... Huet.

... but actually, I think the Southeast division lead is out of reach, so they better focus on Flyers, Sabres, etc.

Stat they just showed- the last 50 games the Caps were trailing after 2 periods, their record is....

0-45-5.....

BACKSTROM AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BACKSTROM DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!! 4-3 CAPS!

Give the Calder to the kid already.

Assist to Ovechkin.

"0-45-5": you see, when they need, when they want, they can. :D

Looks like Kozlov also got an assist on the last goal (details, details).

Give the puck to Backstrom for the empty net, hehe.

Ovechkin is 60-45-105. How cool is that? First guy at 60 since Jagr and Lemieux in the 1990s.

Gordon with the empty netter..........

5-3 final! The dream is alive!

Pad save by Huet!!

GORDON INTO AN EMPTY NET!!!! 5-3. Wow. Huet may get another assist.

They were trailing when I came back, and in less than 5 minutes, it was suddenly 5-3, hehe.

Assists on the empty netter go to Laich and Ovechkin, actually.

60-46-106. With 6 games left.

He's also tied with Maruk for the Caps' season high at 60. They also showed a stat that he and Maruk make the Caps the 5th franchise ever with two 60 goal scorers.

Pretty awesome they got 2 points out of this, considering they only played about 8:00 total.

Look out, Carolina..... there's a storm a'brewin'.

I only got to watch the third period. Remember this game if they make the playoffs.

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'NO' to drugs; 'YES' to mirrored visors.

Stars:

1. Backstrom
2. Ovechkin
3. Slater