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February 22, 2012 | Staff and wire reports
DENVER — Paul Stastny scored two goals, Semyon Varlamov stopped 32 shots and the Colorado Avalanche picked up a 4-1 victory Wednesday night for their first season sweep of the Kings in nearly two decades. Mark Olver and Jay McClement also scored for the Avalanche, which has won three straight at home and moved to within two points of the Kings for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Colorado was 4-0 against the Kings this season, the first time the team has swept the series since 1992-93, when the franchise was in Quebec.
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January 4, 2011
WASHINGTON ? Martin St. Louis scored off a rebound 2:54 into overtime, and Dwayne Roloson made 34 saves in his Tampa Bay debut, leading the Lightning to a 1-0 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night that broke the teams' tie for the lead atop the Southeast Division. St. Louis poked the puck past Semyon Varlamov after a shot by Pavel Kubina ricocheted out, ending Washington's three-game winning streak. The Lightning has won nine of 11 and moved into a tie with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for the Eastern Conference lead with 53 points.
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December 4, 2010
Ondrej Pavelec stopped 45 shots, Andrew Ladd and Rich Peverley each had a goal and an assist, and the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Capitals, 3-1, on Saturday night to snap a nine-game losing streak in Washington. It was the seventh win in eight games for the Thrashers, a run that began with Pavelec shutting out Washington in Atlanta on Nov. 19. The Thrashers are 3-1-1 against the Capitals after going 0-6 against their Southeast Division rivals last season. Alex Ovechkin's goal-scoring drought ended at nine games, which tied a career high, but the Capitals fell to 12-2-1 at home with their first loss against Atlanta at Verizon Center since February 2008.
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October 5, 2010 | By Helene Elliott
EASTERN CONFERENCE TEAM PREVIEWS In predicted order of rankings (division leaders are 1-2-3) Washington Capitals 2009-10 record: 54-15-13, 121 points. Power play: 25.2% (first). Penalty killing: 78.8% (25th). Team goals-against average: 2.72 (16th). Leading scorer: Alex Ovechkin 50-59?109. Outlook: They squandered a 3-1 series lead and were upset by the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, which should fire them up this season.
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March 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — Marty Turco made 49 saves, Brad Richards had a goal and an assist, and the Dallas Stars scored three times in six shots early in the third period en route to a 4-3 shootout victory over the Capitals on Monday night, ending Washington's club-record home winning streak at 13 games. Washington's Alex Ovechkin ended a six-game goal drought, his longest of the season, by scoring twice to match Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby for the league lead with 44. Ovechkin's second goal came with 3:16 left in the third period and tied the score.
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October 16, 2009 | Associated Press
Alex Ovechkin scored twice in a 28-second span of the second period, and the Washington Capitals beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Thursday to end a four-game losing streak. Alexander Semin and Matt Bradley also scored for the Capitals, who had lost 11 straight to San Jose since February 1999. Evgeni Nabokov was 8-0 with a 1.98 goals-against average lifetime versus Washington before Thursday. Capitals goalie Jose Theodore left after the first period with an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Semyon Varlamov, who stopped all 15 shots he faced.