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The Washington Capitals will try to avoid a second straight loss tonight in a matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre. The Capitals suffered just their second setback in seven games last night, falling to the Canadiens, 3-2. Eric Fehr and Brendan Morrison both scored goals, but Washington was unable to net the equalizer despite a late 6-on-4 advantage.

You shouldn't lose a hockey game where you have a 3-0 lead, let alone one with a lead with three seconds left   -Matt Stajan

 

The Washington Capitals will try to avoid a second straight loss tonight in a matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre. The Capitals suffered just their second setback in seven games last night, falling to the Canadiens, 3-2. Eric Fehr and Brendan Morrison both scored goals, but Washington was unable to net the equalizer despite a late 6-on-4 advantage.

You shouldn't lose a hockey game where you have a 3-0 lead, let alone one with a lead with three seconds left   -Matt Stajan

 

Alex Ovechkin 15-9-24, Nicklas Backstrom 4-18-22, Brooks Laich 9-11-20, Mike Green 3-17-20. The skinny: The Caps already are running away with the Southeast Division and they've even done some of the damage without Ovechkin; the back-to-back Hart Trophy winner missed six games with an upper-body strain. Their goaltending tandem of Jose Theodore and rookie Semyon Varlamov has been solid.  

Season Series First meeting. Penguins swept the four-game series last year and have won five straight over the Thrashers. LW Ilya Kovalchuck has four goals and seven assists for 11 points in four games since recovering from a foot injury.  

Fewer than five months after hearing their names called as first-round selections at the National Hockey League Entry Draft, John Tavares of the New York Islanders , Victor Hedman of the Tampa Bay Lightning , Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche and Evander Kane of the Atlanta Thrashers have helped key turnaround performances by their teams in the first quarter of the NHL season. As the 1,230-game schedule passes the quarter mark with tonight's games, seven clubs that did not qualify for the 2008-09 St  

The NHL suspended Dallas Stars forward James Neal two games Friday for a boarding infraction that injured the Columbus Blue Jackets' Derek Dorsett. November 19, 2009 : Rick Nash scored on a power play and Kristian Huselius added a short-handed goal in the final seconds of the fight-filled opening period, sending the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday.  

Flames lose top scorer Bourque Rene Bourque, who leads the Calgary Flames with 21 points in 20 games, will miss at least two contests with an undisclosed injury, coach Brent Sutter said Friday. Ovechkin comes home as Habs visit Caps Washington welcomes back Alex Ovechkin on Friday as the Captials host the Montreal Canadiens. Sarajevo stories move Goals and Dreams team The narratives conveyed to ex-NHLers Rob Zamuner and P.J. Stock as well as NHLPA employees Matt Langen and Devin Smith when they visite  

The Montreal Canadiens will be walking into a hornet's nest when they step onto the ice of the Verizon Center in Washington on Friday. That's because Capitals fans will be buzzing when their beloved superstar Alex Ovechkin returns home for the first time since an upper-body injury kept him off the ice for six games. No. 8 didn't disappoint when he made his debut at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday, scoring a power play goal during the Caps' 4-2 win.

It's always nice when you get hurt and you come back and you score in the first period on your first shot   -Alex Ovechkin

 

Even though Patrick Marleau is no longer captain, he's more of a leader now than before. * Dan Boyle is still the straw that stirs the drink in San Jose. * And Evgeni Nabokov continues to stop nearly everything. But GM Doug Wilson's makeover of the Sharks roster is more than just trading key second-tier scorers Jonathan Cheechoo and Milan Michalek to Ottawa for Dany Heatley .

I wouldn't call them a No. 3 line   -Todd McLellan