HABS BLOW A 4-1 LEAD AND LOSE IN OVERTIME BY THE SCORE OF 6-5

Last night in Washington, the Montreal Canadiens got off to a good start, by getting 2 goals on 2 shots (from Gionta and Kostitsyn) which lead to the Capitals making a goaltending change (Theodore out, Varlamov in). The change sparked the Caps, as Fehr scored to put them within one going into the intermission. Then just 10 minutes into period number two, Andrei Kostitsyn put home his second of the night to put Montreal up 3-1. Just a little while after that it was Andrei Kostitsyn with the hat-trick on the powerplay to put Montreal up three goals. So it's over right? The answer is no. As the Capitals came back the other way and Backstrom scored to put them within 2. In the third period, Bradley took a shot right on Halak and Halak had it. But Ovie came in and took a poke at the pads and it went in for Ovechkin got credit for the goal. But the Caps weren't done there. As Backstrom scored again to tie it at 4-4.

Then with 5 minutes to go, Plekanec scored to give Montreal the lead again at 5-4. But with a minute 21 to go, Carlson tied the game with a simple wrist shot that I think Halak should have had. But once more we were off to overtime. Just 30 seconds in Backstrom scored to get the Capitals a 6-5 win and he gets himself a hat-trick."We just need to play our game," Ovechkin (who after a game with no shots he came right back and got 4 points) said. "It doesn't matter how they're going to play, if we play our game and finish checks, shoot the puck, go to the net, we're going to win. If we play the same way we played in the third period, we're going to be successful." But even though Montreal lost they think they got the job done."We came here for one and we got our one," said winger Michael Cammalleri, who had three assists. "Now it's time to go home and play. I liked our team, I think we did a lot of good things."

Game 3 will be on Monday at 7:00pm E.t/ 4:00pm P.c on TSN, Versus and RDS.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo



Series
tied 1-1