i would expect a time out upcoming by bruce boudreau. obviously alex ovenchin has been passing a lot and trying to hook up green for the hat trick tonight. enjoy that nice certificate from the palm and looking to add to his league leading totallings here with a two man advantage. joe: bruce boudreau not giving up the ghost as mattias ohlund hits the box and tampa bay a win away perhaps from win number 18. craig: moves them to over five hundred. looks to move above five hundred. an excellent start this season. they went into a little bit after slide. in the second season as nhl coach and 14 below five hundred. joe: this is the washington capitals longest winning streak against one team in the franchise history. alex ovenchin and the capitals have one 12 in a row against tampa bay. that figure is to come to an end in about ninety seconds unless bruce boudreau has pulled jose theodore's 6 attackers only three for tampa bay. craig: green on the interchange with alex ovenchin. backstrom and the big rebound will not get out. alex ovenchin hust

i bet you bruce boudreau will.e comes back on the other side of washington capitals post- game live brought to you by the eps store. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>> let's get you back to uniondale, long island. bruce boudreau is meeting with the media. >> guys start off with jose theodore. what happened to him? >> he's day to day with a lower body injury. standard -- yeah. contributions from everyone once again tonight. is your offense sf a groove where they're almost unstoppable eye wouldn't go the unstoppable, but they are in a groove. i think teams whether you're a first place team or 30th get in some part point in the season where things seem to just be working and clicking. right now, they're clicking for us. you know, we've got seven goals and ovie and greeny didn't get a point. that says you've got good balance on the team. >> john erskine scored his first goal in 109 games. he said it had been so long, he didn't know what to do. >> i was very happy with him. there's no too many guys who work harder then i am and h

bruce boudreau wasn't worried about that. there, that one dribbles past price to give washington the lead. >> craig: the caps take that one. a good drive to the net. anytime you sit a center like marveov they are not happy with the refereeing on that call. >> joe: referees allowing that play to continue. markov was helpless to defend. poti digging forward behind michal neuvirth. washington has been a team allowing the first goal quite a bit of late breaks out on top. wrister that's wide to the cage. schultz on the wing for chimera. wing to wing for brendan morrison. gets into the puck first. paul mara puts it along the dasher board. didn't get through shaone morrisonn. chimera outside for fehr. washington 1, montreal no score. just past the 6 minute mark. fleischmann doing the honors unassisted and on the power play. bradley, the hulking defender gill was close by. got a little nonchalant. turned into the corner. matt bradley on top green. pouliot was upended. erskine rolls in. quintin laing, laing occupied by josh gorges. sc

the capitals trying to get coach bruce grow a win for his -- boudreau a win for his 55th birthday. first georgetown and uconn get after it. they trailed by as many as 19 points and went nearly ten minutes without scoring a bucket but georgetown stayed composed and put on a show before 25 scouts from nba teams. first half it was all uconn, the huskierunning early and often. stanley robinson finish be the alley-oop dunk there. later a three ball from jamal mcdaniel and the hurvegies were rolling -- hurvegies were roll -- huskies were rolling. you though who was not happy? john thompson iii. we go to the second half. here come the hoyas and austin freeman went off getting himself set here. he whipped some distance from the top of the key. nothing but net. he was far from being done. he had 28 points in the second half alone. wee tally a career high 33 in all. driving a baseline for another two and the hoyas would rally making the uconn coach speechless as you just saw. the hoyas clinging to a one- point lead but onn has the ball. i'm not sure you can follow this. try to see chris wrig

and i like bruce boudreau against the team. >> guys like semin have destroyed the canes. we know what al ovenchin has done. when you have guys that tear up and the entire team has obliterated the lightning. it is pick them. no matter who they play the capitals have an answer to be a team against the southeast. >> they have more depth than any team in the division and you look at the goaltenders. no team has any type of depth like this and the capitals can win games against the teams when they don't have ovenchin and semin and a back strum or a green. they are still winning the games and someone is coming through for them every single time. >> we are just getting started on caps pregame live. when we come back we will talk about an incredible offensive explosion. and how about the tampa bay lightning weekend? they came back to back to back thanks to a power outage in a new jersey. we will talk about that coming up on capitals pregame live. >> coming up. jeff schultz and the capitals trying to make it 13 in a row over the tampa bay lightning, they are in tampa and we will g

bruce boudreau is tinkering with this idea.ischmann played center as a junior and his national team would like him to play center at the olympics. >> craig: he that is type of speed and vision you need play center. the big question is will he be able to handle the defensive responsibility? a lot different at center compared to wing. at the center you have to work hand and hand with defenseman. you have to take the brunt of the heavy hits down low. that's going to be a challenge for tomas. >> joe: you have to learn it on-the-fly. alex semin tried to cradle it around josh gorges. out of the corner. poti a trailer. has room to fire. he'll squeeze. we played 6 minutes and 36 seconds of the opening period. montreal looking to threaten michal neuvirth. and not what you get? like electricity for gadget power at your seat. room to stretch your legs, and your wingspan, food when you're hungry, and taking off your shoes, only if you feel like it. these aren't luxuries, they're basics. get them back on acela. ( man ) last summer my kid ma

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bruce boudreau only saying he was day to day.we asked him is it an upper body injury or lower body injury? he stayed right away from it, just said day to day. we did see brandon hullcy who was called up from the hershey bears. he has an impressive record with the bears this season, but as bruce boudreau told us this morning he will be cheering from the bench backing up michael norvert tonight. you know, just even looking forward to sitting on the bench, it's still with the goal tending. varlamov did skate today for the fest time in over a week. he took some shots, as well, which was nice to see, and he seemed to be moving around quite well, so all signs point to him making a turn at some point, but i would not expect simeon varlamov to be dressing for russia at the upcoming olympics. let's bring in allen may. i watch to talk about alex semin. what a run this kid has been on. 19 points in the last 11 games. what do you attribute that to? is it the juggling of the lines that bruce has done? >> i think he has finally found some grea

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. >> a big night for bruce boudreau. it's his 55th birthday so the capitals had some winning to do.hey're also on a three-game road trip. they headed into the game with 58 points as they attempt to become the fast esteem in franchise history to reach 60 points. lucky for them that would happen in the first period. no score the capitals in the thrashers zone. they get to face off. it 11-0 capitals. that would be more enough for goaltender. 39 saves in all. the capitals would add on seven more goals. they go on the road. they get a key division win 8- 1. big east rivalries are so strong on the basketball court. case in point tonight's matchup between 12th ranked george towfn and 13th ranked connecticut. uconn has dominated this matchup for many years but recently the wins have gone in georgetown's favor. the hoyas having won the last three meetings. we start in the first half, it was all uconn, the hurvegies running early -- huskies running early and often. the hoyas down 15 at the half. second half, here come the hoyas thanks to austin freeman who went off. he scored 28 of his carr h

. >> we will have bruce boudreau coming up later at 11:00 p.m.c united goaltender troy perkins is returning to the black and red but he will not come without a price. united is sending fred its first round pick in tomorrow's super draft so the team can switch places in the allocation order. that will allow united to acquire him. he was named the league's goal keeper of the year with united in 2006. >>> american footballs. concussions in the forefront in the nfl. hitting close to home a couple months ago when clinton portis suffered what amounted to a season ending concussion. jill sorenson joins us with more on this ever growing issue. >> as we showed you in part 1 of our series on concussions in the nfl, due to the lack of concussion education the league has begun to respond to the need for more awareness and when it comes to more awareness the nfl p.a.'s brain injury committee led the charge. major strides have already been made. part 2 of our series examines what still needs to be done to ensure player players i think do or even did before all

bruce boudreau said he is getting some off-ice workouts, getting in some exercise on the bike and whatnoter -- varly told him he suffered another setback. whether in practice last week we're not sure but he definitely retweaked that knee so it doesn't look like simeon varlamov will be representing russia at the upcoming olympics. >> certainly something to watch. hopefully varly will be healthy soon. great win tonight. >> thanks, greg. >>> talk to you later. tonight and after every caps game joe b breaks it down from his view in the play by play booth and he wants to know your thoughts. leave a comment at csnwashington.com and enter the keyword blog. >>> all right. college basketball, maryland hosting longwood. terps first meeting ever with the independent lancers. gary williams and the terps ready for that non-conference show-down. the last of the season at comcast center. early in the 1st jordan williams loose ball, splits the defenders and throws it down with authority. terps up 9 early. later in the half landon milbourne drives, pulls up for the jumper in the lane and gets the foul. a

the new year just right way very special guest, none other than the head coach of the capitals bruce boudreauith me. happy new year to you. >> thank you. i'm hoping for the happiness to start. >> we had a little bit of a slump here. still head of the division. dropped three in the eastern conference. you lost the last three games. i know you probably can't attribute it to one thing but what do you think is kind of going on right now? >> not to make excuses. every team goes through awe little bit of something. this is ours. hopefully, it is where it is right now and it will end soon. i think 1 of our last 5 games have been on the road. so i think the energy has not been there. you throw in the whole christmas thing but we're a good team and we'll get back to track really soon y it looks like you are having a hard time capitalizing on the power plays. this has been a couple of swayings where you had the chance to maybe change the momentum but it didn't happen. >> you know, if you look at the l.a. game, for example, i mean you can't -- whether it is coach or when brooks miss is an open net in fr

. >> joe: overall, caps have had a great deal of success under bruce boudreau. there are several squads over which he has a commanding record. >> craig: yeah t-starts with this highland islander team. -- with this islander team. rangers, senators and pens, gabby put up points in 22-25 games. >> joe: the islanders have three good goalies. these two get jerseys tonight with roloson the starter. >> craig: for rick dipietro, nine games played the last two seasons. he returned january 8 and played two games so far. dwayne roloson gets the nod. this 40-year-old having a career year, joe. impressive .912 looking for his 40th win tonight -- win tonight. >> joe: you can count on overtime just about every time these teams meet. slapped them down in the nation's capital. caps-isles, one more time on geo hingat? ow t som een g toyou. you lo--utte so c i .. i lo i .. otheer l- i' one ank -ou le taoffbeermuch you e grlsnee trips b er l taste grs. you're gorgeous, look at you, i loooov y taste grs. in 1977, in johannesbu sorica n 8-ld b pickthe f go fromathe e ag9, h dy oing o