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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Kovalev and Ovechkin scores in the shootout to lead the Eastern Confrence to a 12-11 win



In the First period, Carey Price started in goal for the Eastern All-Stars. In that First period Price made 9 saves on 11 shots,as the East was up 4-2 after 1 period. Alex Ovechkin,Eric Staal,Alexei Kovalev,and Andrei Markov scored in the first period for the East.J. Giguere made 7 saves on 11 shots in the first period.Keith Tkachuk and Patrick Marleau scored in the first period for the West.In the Second period it was N.Backstrom was in goal for the west and he made 17 saves on 21 shots.

Sheldon Souray,D.Boyle,Nash,Hejduk,Souray and Iginla scored for the west in the second.Henrik Lundqvist started in goal for the East in the Second,he made 15 saves on 21 shots.Martin St. Louis,E.Malkin and Kovalev scored in the second for the East.In the Final frame(The 3rd period and Overtime) Tim Thomas started in goal for the East,he made 19 saves on 22 shots.Dany Heatley,St. Louis,and Bouwmeester scored in the Third for the East.As for the West,Roberto Lungo started in the Final fram(The 3rd and Overtime) he made 13 saves on 16 shots.Doan,Toews and Kane scored in the Third.

Kovalev and Ovechkin scored in the shootout to lead the East to a 12-11 Shootout win.In this game the Fans in Montreal were so loud the Broadcasters from CBC literary had to scream so the players can here them talk."I think hockey is more popular now than it was in the '70s when we won four Cups in a row," said former Canadiens player Serge Savard. "They had 22,000 people at the workout yesterday morning. And you can see people in the streets, people with cars with flags, with the `CH' flag, the waiting list for season tickets."Their will be no All-star game next year due to the Olympics but their will definitely be one in 2011.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo

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