caps/canadiens no score. toyota 1 to watch.s. >> craig: giroux plays with back patrolman. objection to mechanic one of their best players on a one year deal looking to be an unrestricted free agent. racking up the points after a sub bar year last year. >> joe: david steckel the draw against glen metropolit. he was talking about metropolit getting low and being heavy on his stick much heavier than let's saito mass plekanec. >> craig: that was a good win for metropolit. didn't he lose all of one draw? >> joe: 14-1 in fact. >> craig: pretty good night. >> joe: metropolit met skidding to a -- metropolit skidding to the scope. varlamov didn't see the rebound and he hustles to the post. he will cover and gets the whistle in time. >> craig: the boards are fast here in montreal as are the dashers and that baby came right off. good keeping pressure against varly. varly, very good when the puck is low along the ice next to the posts. watch this. kicked back to the point. everybody in red goes to the net but notice 3 on 3 in front, joe. p

caps and canadiens need extra time. right after this. >> joe: visit them at geico pick, or call 1-800-947-auto. and by chevy chase nissan. your lifetime nissan dealer. in the beautiful city of montreal, quebec, canada, there are some caps fans sprinkled amidst the 21,000 or so rooting for montreal. a dramatic finish for the caps. they draw even 3-3 with 12 seconds to go in the 3rd and craig laughlin will show us. >> craig: the end zone view of what the caps look like. look at this side of the ice, joe. because it 6 on 4, nobody can go to the board. the foot wedge goes to the wide open guy back to the point and look arthritis on the doorstep. the canadiens lost sight of him. he was behind the rush towards the net. and eric fehr after a nice stop by price on the slap shot from ovechkin, fehr gets his second of the night. >> joe: he'll start overtime on the bench four on four these two teams their respective records in overtime and via the shoot out. montreal has been pretty darned good after overtime. or after regulation.

he is looking forward to this game tonight and he has to be calm against this canadiens team. >> let'ss top two centers. the guy in the second slot is outplaying the number one. >> you're talking morrison versus backstrom. they're two guys going different ways. morrison, he's had more complimentary players play with him, more set lines and he has been scoring at will an the net, especially this month. and nick backstrom has fell into hard times. i thought the first 10 games he was awesome. the last 10, just all right. he needs a better, more different right winger. he hasn't had that line trouble. >> look back at the last two weeks of play and the numbers speak for themselves. >> yeah, one assist in a miens three for nick. for brendan five point and the same amount of shots. two centers that will have to be big tonight. >> 21,000 crazy canadians can't wait to see the caps play, michael. >> we're looking forward to it. gentlemen. thank you. coming up, playoffs in college football don't usually go together. there first round playoff highlights are on the way. >>> plus, virginia and virgi

anything but -- the canadiens and caps were anything but peaceful.erformance in the first go round. caps hockey over and out on comcast sportsnet. >>> this building will be buzzing. the capitals have crossed into canada for a hockey night excursion with the maple leaves who don't seem to be going any places. look who is on tv. have you checked the schedule lately? your favorite hockey team has a ton of travel ahead and, locker, so far so good >> craig: they have been pretty good. away from verizon, including in that, 6 ws for this caps team. they have been very good in october, mediocre in november, scoring a ton. they better have their suitcased packed. >> joe: we asked for mike green for his recipe on how to win away from the home. >> i think our hockey club is keeping it simple. any time we can get the puck deep and behind theirdefensemen, we are usually successful. when we try to dipsy doo at the blue line, we get in trouble. we have been pretty good but if we put it together, we can be pretty good over the next month. just about all of them have

last night after the cap as it' lost to the montreal canadiens. bruce boudreau bemoaned the fact that they could not get their legs going. and it was not until the third period that they got it going. i thrut it was the same tonight >> alan: they didn't they were fatigued tonight. whereas last night they were not. right from the start of the game, you know, they just weren't ready to compete. they are not skating the puck in the zone enough. ovechkin makes a pass when he should have taken the puck to the net. i thought, you know, bad decisions at the blue line, offsides continuously and a dump by mike green. it was way too easy for the toronto maple leafs to get the puck out of the zone at the start of the game. all of a sudden, they start to figure out when they realized they would get the puck. great pass and great goal by ovechkin off the green pass. and, you know, once they started to do that, they came out are the start of the second period and started to get odd man rushes. backstrom gets the shot, goes wide with t ovechkin, same shift, gets

>> -- >> dhue canadiens bill this way? -- do canadians feel this way? >> if you look at how much people want to believe in american redemption, look at the excitement around the world about a bomb's election -- obama's election. there is a tremendous feeling of goodwill. obama mania hit canada pretty hard. >> what is your take on the obama administration bringing these guantanamo bay prisoners to this town and trying them. -- trying them? >> first of all, i do support the decision that they be tried in the united states. i think that americans need to regain their faith in their justice system. the ideas that you could have these pockets where you could send people for unlimited amounts of time is utterly unattainablwrong. it is painful to bring the system back into lawfulness. to me, i think guantanamo should never have been opened in the first place. it is a very good sign that obama is doing this. to say that results don't matter, that is undermining that message. it is kind of a typical obama compromise. he really undercuts himself by trying to spli

. >> al: they lose to two canadian teams, montreal canadiens here last night. you know, simeon varlamov gave his hockey team every opportunity to win but much like last night, it took the capitals too long to get into the game and when it was a winnable game in the third period, they didn't seem ready to put this thing away? >> alan: i think they were a very fatigued team, 38 shots against varlamov. he was very spectacular all game long. i thought the caps were very tired in the first period. they didn't have their legs yet. they got going near the end of the first. they had a great, you know, first 10 minutes of the second period but then they died in the last half of that. and in the third, they had no gas left. it started to show where the holes were on defense and where they are missing their players. you know, not all the defensemen with porous but the inexperience showed and i think the fatigue very much showed tonight >> al: you also in a situation -- i always hate to do this any time the capitals lose. we act like the other team had nothing to do with i