Last night in Washington, it was Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs between the Montreal Canadiens and the Washington Capitals. There has been many predictions from Broadcasters saying that Montreal doesn't have a chance to win. But guess who won last night. It was the Montreal Canadiens by the score of 3-2 in overtime with a goal by Tomas Plekanec."That's a huge goal for our team," Plekanec said. "It doesn't matter who scored the goal in the playoffs, everybody just has to do their jobs and that's what we did." Thought the game the Montreal Canadiens stuck to there game plan.Which was to shutdown Ovechkin. They did that alright. They didn't even let him get 1 shot on goal.
"When you have 50 shots on goal and Ovechkin doesn't have any, and you've got four power plays there's something (wrong)," Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau said. "They took him away pretty good, but I don't think he played very well tonight." In the victory, Plekanec, Cammalleri and Scott Gomez scored and Jaroslav Halak made 45 saves."Jaro was Jaro, he's been so solid for us all year," Cammalleri said. "He has to be that way, it really isn't an option. It's funny, there's been times this year when we've asked him if he wants more shots because he seems to do so well under that barrage." As for the Capitals, Corvo and Backstrom scored and Jose Theodore made 37 saves in the loss.
In my opinion, Montreal got the job done. They played with confidence, were finally able to score when the teams were even at 5 skaters a piece (2 of Montreals goals 5 on 5) and Halak played great. So now lets wait until Saturday night to see if Montreal can extend there lead going back to Montreal.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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