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National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 5, Washington 3
When: 8:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 4, 2014
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Tom Kowal, Wes McCauley
Linesmen: Don Henderson, Andy McElman
Attendance: 19022
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 2103
Minnesota 0415
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
12:02 - Capitals Marcus Johansson (PP) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , Nicklas Backstrom
12:15 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Jason Chimera , Joel Ward
Penalties
10:37 - Wild Dany Heatley (2) Slashing
 14:17 - Capitals Troy Brouwer (2) Hooking
 17:15 - Wild Nate Prosser (5) Fighting
 17:15 - Capitals Troy Brouwer (5) Fighting
 19:29 - Wild Matt Cooke (2) Unsportsmanlike conduct
 19:29 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (2) Unsportsmanlike conduct
2nd Period
Scoring
2:16 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Charlie Coyle , Matt Cooke
6:56 - Wild Ryan Suter (PP) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Mikael Granlund
7:38 - Wild Ryan Suter (PP) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Dany Heatley
13:50 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Brooks Laich
17:04 - Wild Jason Zucker (PP) Assists: Keith Ballard , Jonas Brodin
Penalties
6:30 - Capitals Steve Oleksy (2) Roughing
 6:35 - Capitals Karl Alzner (2) Delay of game
 15:32 - Capitals Mikhail Grabovski (2) Delay of game
3rd Period
Scoring
7:37 - Wild Ryan Suter (EV) Assists: Clayton Stoner
Penalties
5:30 - Wild Ryan Suter (2) Tripping
 10:42 - Capitals Jay Beagle (2) Tripping
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Philipp Grubauer G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Braden Holtby G 0 0 0 0 0 58:19 48:14 3:25 6:40 0 0 - - - - -
John Erskine D 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 14:41 10:31 0:00 4:10 0 0 2 1 - - -
Alex Ovechkin RW 0 1 1 -2 2 7 21 21:24 17:59 3:25 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Martin Erat RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 10 7:27 7:27 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 22 17:15 15:39 0:00 1:36 0 0 1 - 0 1 0
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 E 0 2 23 21:29 17:20 2:44 1:25 0 0 2 - 5 10 33
Troy Brouwer RW 0 0 0 E 7 2 21 18:11 14:16 2:44 1:11 0 0 3 - 2 3 40
Brooks Laich C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 22 14:39 11:00 0:41 2:58 0 0 - - 10 7 59
Jason Chimera LW 0 1 1 +2 0 1 18 12:44 10:17 0:00 2:27 0 0 - - - - -
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 E 2 1 23 19:25 17:11 0:00 2:14 0 0 - 1 - - -
Joel Ward RW 0 1 1 +1 0 0 21 14:07 10:59 0:41 2:27 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 7 3:46 3:46 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Mike Green D 2 0 2 E 0 6 21 20:06 19:50 0:16 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Steve Oleksy D 0 0 0 E 2 0 16 14:33 11:20 0:00 3:13 0 0 - - - - -
John Carlson D 0 0 0 E 0 3 25 25:16 18:45 3:09 3:22 0 0 - 3 - - -
Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 22 21:51 21:51 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 2 - - -
Jay Beagle RW 0 0 0 -1 2 0 14 7:22 6:06 0:00 1:16 0 0 - - 2 5 29
Mikhail Grabovski C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 23 20:02 19:21 0:41 0:00 0 0 - - 6 9 40
Marcus Johansson C 1 0 1 E 0 3 20 18:22 15:38 2:44 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 49:55 6:40 3:25 0 0 - - - - -
Darcy Kuemper G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Keith Ballard D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 21 13:13 11:43 1:30 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 E 0 0 23 15:34 11:34 4:00 0:00 0 0 2 - 4 6 40
Clayton Stoner D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 21 13:07 11:39 0:16 1:12 0 0 5 2 - - -
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 25 17:49 16:06 0:55 0:48 0 0 1 - - - -
Mikko Koivu C 0 2 2 E 0 0 23 18:31 12:26 4:20 1:45 0 0 1 - 10 5 67
Dany Heatley LW 0 1 1 E 2 2 26 19:47 15:14 4:33 0:00 0 0 - 3 1 1 50
Jason Zucker LW 1 0 1 -1 0 1 17 11:29 9:24 2:05 0:00 1 0 - 2 - - -
Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 E 0 0 22 12:31 12:06 0:00 0:25 0 0 - 1 - - -
Stephane Veilleux LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 10:43 10:18 0:00 0:25 0 0 1 1 - - -
Ryan Suter D 3 0 3 +2 2 3 32 31:06 24:45 4:56 1:25 2 0 - 4 - - -
Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 E 0 0 25 16:25 13:42 0:03 2:40 0 0 1 - 10 9 53
Nino Niederreiter RW 1 0 1 +2 0 1 22 13:32 12:14 1:18 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Matt Cooke LW 0 1 1 E 2 1 25 15:01 13:26 0:00 1:35 0 0 6 - - - -
Jonas Brodin D 0 1 1 E 0 0 35 25:31 21:21 1:57 2:13 0 0 1 1 - - -
Jason Pominville RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 28 22:16 17:27 4:49 0:00 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 5 0 22 15:35 14:23 0:00 1:12 0 0 1 2 - - -
Brett Bulmer RW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 11 6:18 6:18 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mikael Granlund C 0 1 1 E 0 0 25 16:07 13:29 2:38 0:00 0 0 1 2 11 4 73
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Braden Holtby L (23-15-4) 11 6 5 .545 0 58:19
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom W (5-11-2) 30 27 3 .900 0 60:00