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| 3 | MONTREAL | +110 | Ov 5,-140 | +100 | Ov 5.5,+120 | | 4 | WASHINGTON | -130 | Un 5,+120 | -120 | Un 5.5,-140 |
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| All Games | 11-11-0 | -3.4 | 11-11 | -3.4 | 6-15 | 2.6 | 30.1 | 2.1 | 31.1 | | Team Stats (Road Games) | 5-4-0 | +0.6 | 5-4 | +0.6 | 1-8 | 2.6 | 31.9 | 2.1 | 29.0 | | Last 5 Games | 3-2-0 | -0.1 | 3-2 | -0.1 | 2-3 | 2.8 | 30.0 | 1.8 | 31.4 |
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| Team Stats (All Games) | 22 | 58 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 663 | 8.7% | 83 | 20 | 24.1% | 94 | | Team Stats (Road Games) | 9 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 287 | 8.0% | 33 | 10 | 30.3% | 36 | | Team Stats (Last 5 Games) | 5 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 150 | 9.3% | 19 | 5 | 26.3% | 22 | | Stats Against (All Games) | | 47 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 684 | 6.9% | 80 | 12 | 15.0% | 74 | | Stats Against (Road Games) | | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 261 | 7.3% | 29 | 2 | 6.9% | 30 | | Stats Against (Last 5 Games) | | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 157 | 5.7% | 17 | 4 | 23.5% | 15 |
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| PETER BUDAJ (All Games) | 4 | 4 | 110 | 104 | 94.5% | 0 | 3-1 | +2.1 | 3-1-0 | +2 | 0-4 | | PETER BUDAJ (Road Games) | 4 | 4 | 110 | 104 | 94.5% | 0 | 3-1 | +2.1 | 3-1-0 | +2 | 0-4 | | PETER BUDAJ (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 4 | 110 | 104 | 94.5% | 0 | 3-1 | +2.1 | 3-1-0 | +2 | 0-4 | | CAREY PRICE (All Games) | 18 | 18 | 572 | 535 | 93.5% | 0 | 8-10 | -5.5 | 8-10-0 | -5 | 6-11 | | CAREY PRICE (Road Games) | 5 | 5 | 149 | 138 | 92.6% | 0 | 2-3 | -1.5 | 2-3-0 | -1 | 1-4 | | CAREY PRICE (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 4 | 132 | 126 | 95.5% | 0 | 2-2 | -1.1 | 2-2-0 | -1 | 2-2 |
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| All Games | 12-10-0 | +0.8 | 12-10 | +0.8 | 10-11 | 3.1 | 29.5 | 2.9 | 35.0 | | Team Stats (Home Games) | 8-4-0 | +2.7 | 8-4 | +2.7 | 4-7 | 3.0 | 29.5 | 2.6 | 35.4 | | Last 5 Games | 3-2-0 | +1.2 | 3-2 | +1.2 | 2-3 | 2.6 | 27.8 | 3.0 | 37.6 |
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| Team Stats (All Games) | 22 | 69 | 14 | 32 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 649 | 10.6% | 87 | 21 | 24.1% | 115 | | Team Stats (Home Games) | 12 | 36 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 354 | 10.2% | 43 | 12 | 27.9% | 61 | | Team Stats (Last 5 Games) | 5 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 139 | 9.4% | 18 | 1 | 5.6% | 22 | | Stats Against (All Games) | | 63 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 771 | 8.2% | 88 | 12 | 13.6% | 111 | | Stats Against (Home Games) | | 31 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 425 | 7.3% | 47 | 7 | 14.9% | 54 | | Stats Against (Last 5 Games) | | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 188 | 8.0% | 19 | 4 | 21.1% | 26 |
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| BRADEN HOLTBY (All Games) | 18 | 17 | 587 | 542 | 92.3% | 0 | 10-7 | +2 | 10-7-0 | +2 | 7-9 | | BRADEN HOLTBY (Home Games) | 10 | 9 | 336 | 313 | 93.2% | 0 | 6-3 | +1.8 | 6-3-0 | +2 | 2-6 | | BRADEN HOLTBY (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 4 | 151 | 140 | 92.7% | 0 | 3-1 | +2.2 | 3-1-0 | +2 | 2-2 | | MICHAL NEUVIRTH (All Games) | 6 | 5 | 184 | 168 | 91.3% | 0 | 2-3 | -1.2 | 2-3-0 | -1 | 3-2 | | MICHAL NEUVIRTH (Home Games) | 3 | 3 | 89 | 81 | 91.0% | 0 | 2-1 | +0.8 | 2-1-0 | +1 | 2-1 | | MICHAL NEUVIRTH (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 3 | 128 | 118 | 92.2% | 0 | 1-2 | -1 | 1-2-0 | -1 | 1-2 |
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| 10/26/2013 | SAN JOSE | 0-2 | L | 0, +105 | L | 5 ov | U | | 10/28/2013 | at NY RANGERS | 2-0 | W | 0, +100 | W | 5 ov | U | | 10/29/2013 | DALLAS | 2-1 | W | 0, -145 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/1/2013 | at MINNESOTA | 3-4 | L | 0, +115 | L | 5 un | O | | 11/2/2013 | at COLORADO | 1-4 | L | 0, +120 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/5/2013 | ST LOUIS | 2-3 | L | 0, +105 | L | 5 ov | P | | 11/7/2013 | at OTTAWA | 1-4 | L | 0, -120 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/10/2013 | NY ISLANDERS | 4-2 | W | 0, -215 | W | 5.5 un | O | | 11/12/2013 | TAMPA BAY | 1-2 | L | 0, -185 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/15/2013 | at COLUMBUS | 3-2 | W | 0, -120 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/16/2013 | NY RANGERS | 0-1 | L | 0, -125 | L | 5 un | U | | 11/19/2013 | MINNESOTA | 6-2 | W | 0, -115 | W | 5 un | O | | 11/22/2013 | at WASHINGTON | | | 11/23/2013 | PITTSBURGH | | | 11/27/2013 | at BUFFALO | | | 11/29/2013 | at WASHINGTON | | | 11/30/2013 | TORONTO | | | 12/2/2013 | NEW JERSEY | |
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| 10/26/2013 | at CALGARY | 2-5 | L | 0, -130 | L | 5.5 ov | O | | 10/28/2013 | at VANCOUVER | 2-3 | L | 0, +140 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/1/2013 | at PHILADELPHIA | 7-0 | W | 0, +130 | W | 5 ov | O | | 11/2/2013 | FLORIDA | 3-2 | W | 0, -170 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/5/2013 | NY ISLANDERS | 6-2 | W | 0, -125 | W | 5.5 ov | O | | 11/7/2013 | MINNESOTA | 3-2 | W | 0, -105 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/9/2013 | at PHOENIX | 3-4 | L | 0, +125 | L | 5.5 ov | O | | 11/10/2013 | at COLORADO | 1-4 | L | 0, +140 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/12/2013 | COLUMBUS | 4-3 | W | 0, -145 | W | 5.5 un | O | | 11/15/2013 | at DETROIT | 4-3 | W | 0, +125 | W | 5.5 un | O | | 11/17/2013 | ST LOUIS | 4-1 | W | 0, +100 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/20/2013 | PITTSBURGH | 0-4 | L | 0, +110 | L | 5.5 un | U | | 11/22/2013 | MONTREAL | | | 11/23/2013 | at TORONTO | | | 11/27/2013 | OTTAWA | | | 11/29/2013 | MONTREAL | | | 11/30/2013 | at NY ISLANDERS | | | 12/3/2013 | CAROLINA | |
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| |  | MONTREAL: MONTREAL (AP) - As Montreal embarks on a season laced with expectations, most around the NHL are confused by just what this bunch is.
Are the Canadiens the team that won 13 of their first 20 games on their way to the franchise's 22nd division title last season, and first since 2007-08? Or are they the team that lost six of their last 10 regular-season games and were eliminated from the playoffs in five games by the Ottawa Senators?
The talent is certainly still in place, but the trek will be tough. Montreal, in the reconfigured NHL, is in the difficult Atlantic Division with the likes of Boston, Ottawa, Toronto and Detroit. All of those teams made the playoffs last season, and the Bruins advanced to the Stanley Cup finals.
Montreal opens vs. Toronto on Oct. 1. | | WASHINGTON: ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - The patches of white in Alex Ovechkin's black hair are growing more pronounced.
He turned 28 this month, he is the captain of the Washington Capitals, and while the Russian wing is coming off a third NHL MVP trophy, what he does not have at this point is much in the way of playoff success.
``Of course it's hard (to) realize you're getting older. And, of course, you always want to be 24, 23 years old,'' Ovechkin said. ``But it's impossible. So you just move on.''
Eventually embracing the shift from left to right wing at the behest of rookie coach Adam Oates, Ovechkin led the Capitals into the postseason for the sixth consecutive time last spring. What also happened to Ovechkin and Washington for the sixth consecutive time: a first- or second-round exit.
``You can't say, like, `We're going to win the Stanley Cup. Of course, we would love to win the Stanley Cup. ... We're going to try to do it,'' Ovechkin said. ``But we just have to play every game like it's (our) last game.''
Very little has changed about the roster in the four-plus months since a 5-0 home loss in Game 7 of Washington's first-round series against the New York Rangers. Ask around the organization about what the expectations or aims should be for the Capitals during the 2013-14 season and, not surprisingly, the responses will vary.
Owner Ted Leonsis just hopes his team doesn't take for granted that it will reach the playoffs.
General manager George McPhee said: ``The objective always is to make the playoffs to give yourself a chance. And we'd love to go deep, and we'd love to win a cup.''
And forward Brooks Laich made quite clear his feeling that no one associated with the club should be satisfied by merely making it deeper into the playoffs than the Capitals have in the recent past.
``We're not looking to just get through the second round. If we do that and we go home ... after the third round, we're not going home and patting ourselves on the back,'' Laich said. ``The expectation within that locker room is to win the Stanley Cup.''
The Capitals open at the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 1. |
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*Canadiens-Capitals Preview* ============================
By JEFF MEZYDLO STATS Senior Writer
Montreal (11-9-2) at Washington (12-9-1), 7:00 p.m. EDT
The Washington Capitals are poised to learn and move on from their worst defeat of the season.
After being shut down by one of their biggest rivals, the Capitals hope to bounce back with a third straight victory over the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Friday night.
In the midst of a 7-1-1 stretch, Washington (12-9-1) totaled 12 goals during a three-game winning streak that ended with Wednesday's 4-0 home loss to rival Pittsburgh. The Capitals were held to a season-low 18 shots, shut out for the first time in a month and outmatched by the Penguins in just about every aspect of the game.
"We always (learn from a game) no matter what, win or lose, we always do that," coach Adam Oates said. "It'll be a little harder because it was a game you were looking forward to - a team that you want to beat. There's lots of ways to lose games, and that's not really one way you want to do it."
Washington fell behind 2-0 during a first period in which they were outshot 17-6. The Penguins finished with 40 shots.
"It wasn't our best effort, but through the course of the season there are going to be games like that," center Brooks Laich said. "But you have to stick together. That's the main thing.
"We are never satisfied. You hope that you are never playing as good as you can because that means that you are never going to improve anymore."
The Capitals hope to improve a power play that's 1 for 18 in the last five games, a stretch prior to which they were converting a league-best 28.2 percent of their chances. Meanwhile, their last three opponents are 4 for 13 with the man advantage after the first 19 went 8 for 74 (10.8 percent).
Star Alex Ovechkin had his goal streak end at three games when he recorded a season-low two shots against the Penguins. Washington has won nine in a row when he scores.
Ovechkin has three goals with an assist in the last two meetings versus Montreal (11-9-2) - both on the road in April.
Though the Capitals have won eight of nine in the series, the Canadiens have earned three points in their last two trips to Washington. Montreal won 4-1 in their only visit to the nation's capital last season, the only time it has scored more than two goals in the past 12 meetings.
The Canadiens look to build on their most productive offensive game of the season after Max Pacioretty recorded a natural hat trick in Tuesday's 6-2 victory over Minnesota. They had lost seven of the previous 11 while totaling 19 goals.
Montreal's leader in points the past two seasons, Pacioretty snapped an eight-game goal drought to run his point total to seven through 13 games. He missed nine games due to injury.
"There's a lot of things probably being said about me out there," Pacioretty said of his offensive struggles. "That's how it is in this business when you're not performing. Everyone goes through it, but it felt good (Wednesday)."
He has four points in his last four games versus the Capitals but has no goals in eight career visits to Washington.
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