National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 4, Carolina 2
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Brad Meier, Jean Hebert
Linesmen: David Brisebois, Darren Gibbs
Attendance: 18506
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Carolina 0202
Washington 2204
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
2:46 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Tom Wilson , Curtis Glencross
11:12 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Evgeny Kuznetsov , Matt Niskanen
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
5:00 - Hurricanes Nathan Gerbe (EV) Assists: Alexander Semin
10:33 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Chris Terry , John-Michael Liles
17:06 - Capitals Brooks Laich (EV) Assists: Jason Chimera , Mike Green
18:28 - Capitals Joel Ward (EV) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , Evgeny Kuznetsov
Penalties
None.
3rd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
1:57 - Capitals Evgeny Kuznetsov (2) Slashing
 14:50 - Capitals Brooks Orpik (2) Tripping
Carolina Hurricanes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Cam Ward G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 56:00 4:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Anton Khudobin G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan Murphy D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 22 19:26 17:14 2:12 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 +1 0 0 21 17:02 15:10 1:52 0:00 0 0 3 - 8 5 62
Eric Staal C 1 0 1 E 0 5 23 17:37 15:49 1:48 0:00 0 0 1 3 5 10 33
Nathan Gerbe LW 1 0 1 E 0 2 21 17:05 15:13 1:52 0:00 0 0 4 1 0 2 0
Andrej Nestrasil C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 20 16:08 16:08 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Elias Lindholm C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 19 14:29 12:41 1:48 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Jay McClement C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 16 13:12 12:52 0:20 0:00 0 0 - - 5 8 38
Brad Malone C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 15 11:22 11:18 0:04 0:00 0 0 1 1 1 0 100
Chris Terry LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 23 19:16 17:28 1:48 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
John-Michael Liles D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 25 19:55 17:40 2:15 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Justin Faulk D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 28 24:46 22:37 2:09 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Alexander Semin RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 19 15:24 15:24 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Patrick Dwyer RW 0 0 0 -2 0 2 14 12:07 11:47 0:20 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Danny Biega D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 21 16:51 16:51 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Victor Rask C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17 13:33 12:09 1:24 0:00 0 0 - - 4 4 50
Jeff Skinner LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 19 14:09 12:01 2:08 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 26 23:20 23:20 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Brett Bellemore D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 19 14:18 14:18 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Justin Peters G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Braden Holtby G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 56:00 0:00 4:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 E 0 0 27 21:27 19:33 0:00 1:54 0 0 3 2 - - -
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 23 16:51 16:00 0:00 0:51 0 0 - - - - -
Alex Ovechkin RW 1 1 2 +2 0 4 20 15:13 15:13 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 14:14 13:11 0:00 1:03 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 23 18:00 16:45 0:00 1:15 0 0 - 1 9 5 64
Troy Brouwer RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 25 19:09 17:27 0:00 1:42 0 0 3 - 1 0 100
Brooks Laich C 1 0 1 E 0 1 21 15:02 13:22 0:00 1:40 0 0 6 - 0 1 0
Curtis Glencross LW 0 1 1 E 0 0 13 10:12 10:12 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 1 1 0 100
Jason Chimera LW 0 1 1 E 0 0 19 14:02 12:47 0:00 1:15 0 0 1 - - - -
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 E 0 2 27 20:17 18:23 0:00 1:54 0 0 1 1 - - -
Joel Ward RW 1 0 1 +2 0 1 21 16:00 14:57 0:00 1:03 0 0 - - 0 2 0
Tom Wilson RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 13 10:49 10:49 0:00 0:00 0 0 4 - - - -
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 27 23:00 21:45 0:00 1:15 0 0 7 4 - - -
Michael Latta C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 13 10:31 10:29 0:00 0:02 0 0 2 1 6 6 50
Mike Green D 1 1 2 +3 0 2 22 16:02 16:02 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 26 22:31 20:25 0:00 2:06 0 0 1 2 - - -
Marcus Johansson C 0 0 0 E 0 2 21 17:05 17:05 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 2 2 +2 2 1 21 15:35 15:35 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - 5 5 50
Goaltending
Carolina
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cam Ward L (20-22-5) 20 16 4 .800 0 60:00
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Braden Holtby W (38-19-9) 25 23 2 .920 0 60:00