fehr stopped by price. he milked it in the crease. >> craig: montreal canadiens got caught out there a little bit too long, joe, and that allowed a good attack. the caps defenseman here in overtime have been joining the attacks, spacek takes down eric fehr in front of the net. if you are going to take someone down, why not number 16? he is in the man for the caps. the last play right here. a nice pass by tomas fleischmann. eric fehr a good chunk of that shot and notice where brian pothier is. he takes a beating in front of the net. a couple of kabongs to the bag of his noggin right in front of the net in front of price. >> joe: locker, it will be backstrom, laich, green and ovechkin four on ice for washington. the caps have the slim lead when it comes to face-offs. plekanec has been trusted with it for montreal. making sure these two guys are set. backstrom with the kick. ovechkin throws it right to the chest of price and there's no rebound. >> craig: ike toll the face-off that he wants to send this game to

fehr and ovechkin.s. >> craig: i had my fair share when i played. >> joe: on the bench i bet. >> craig: after practice. when you practiced here there were trays of those waiting for us. the best thing ever when i played hockey was playing in quebec. >> joe: it's all about the bun. >> craig: toasted. love it. >> joe: under way in period 2. >> craig: oh, yeah. >> joe: the guy on billboard was putting lots of mustard on it. this one squeezes through o'byrne. bergeron makes the touch-up in early icing call. lines men tonight. >> craig: see if the canadiens come out of their locker room strong were bergeron minding the point in that 1st period didn't generate enough shots on their home ice for jacques martin. this isn't a high scoring team. you have to shoot to score. he needs more production from their four lines. >> joe: a week ago, just over a week they took the boards away i thought from the capitals in their win at verizon center. the caps have had things going their way, chris clark will scale in. line

stempniak around fehr. fehr with a well placed snapshot an evening going giving washington the lead against montreal that they eventually squanderred. kulemin didn't handling that very well. stempniak with the puck, white fires way i'd. kaberle to operate. knocked out the air by green. mitchell, the skate, great stop there from varlamov, robbing kulemin >> craig: that was a great stop there the caps a little careless with the puck at exiting the zone. fehr does not have a stick. they have a long way to go this period back to the bench. mitchell a long way. varlamov is sharp >> craig: that was kiewl by kulemin. that was a nice curling drag getting into that center position. when you curl and drag, you are trying to get a better angle to the net. look at this pass. look at this curl, that opens up a better shot to sit the top corners. prior to, that here is a kulemin shot along the ice. caps a little careless here in the second in their own zone >> joe: varlamov with 20 stops and we are not yet 26 minutes old

he makes the save on fehr.s up the shots on goal, now level at 9 apiece. 5 minute and change away from net star one intermention live are we on comcast sport net. the great 8 into the offensive zone. nimble move. ovechkin inside for fehr, lets it go, knocked down by finger, played clear by ian white. on target to hagman. one on one. hagman looking for blake who is just out of the box. the pass is behind him. chris clark scampers through center. it's the brakes, uses the boards to get it to morrissonn. cut off by kaberle. hagman off the window. luke shen rumbling back through center. kessel is next in line. on the delay. off the rush. denied by varlamov >> craig: real niles attack by the leafs, started by the pointmen, jumping into the play. kaberle is so quick getting into the play, so quick at closing the gap. you think about closing the gap defensively, you have to do it offensively >> joe: both goalies seem to be on their best behavior on this one. erskin for david steckel on through to andrew gordon. gordon