penner to gagner. penner looking for him again, this one is melted long enough for a whistle. >> craig: one of the best lines in hockey playing with the montreal canadians, lighting it up for dale hunter's squad. here's the opportunity to go to the net. just didn't get there in time, joe. he's not the biggest guy, he can put up the numbers. blah. they would like to see more goals from sam. >> joe: a look at how quickly the traffic so develops in front of the net minder. 8 seconds left in the first period. stone, o'sullivan wanting to bounce by. steckel keeping it at his feet. this first period is done. washington to deslauriers time after time, but the big edmonton net minder and mike neuvirth with a clean slate after 20. net star intermission live is coming up. you can't go anywhere in canada without talking about the olympic hockey tournament. we will put locker to work -- laughlin to work with tell station. there -- telestrati,on. stay with us. live on the other side of the break. - what can i say?

dustin penner, stop throw from him. washington trailing, in edmonton tonight, off the one- goal loss. that's tapped aside. cody waiting for the breakout to begin. he had to give it up for a floater back up deslauriers' neighborhood. this guy is a decent play maker from the back end as welt. good passer. scooped it, on one big give there. into the corn e289. sloan and gagner going around and around. sam gagner emerging with it. sneed this way. rejected by aldner. fleischmann for knuble and back out. mike knuble cleared in. and then working the floor check with brendan morrison. >> craig: not a good clear there by sneed. along the wall, allowing the caps to come in and keep the play alive. >> joe: 1-0 for the oilers. horcoff here in the 2nd. looking at the breakout beginning. it happens quickly behind the net. morrow down the lane. armed away by dorber. i did see a quote saying we will not allow alex ovechkin to get three goals tonight. >> craig: that would be that quote. >> joe: that youngster should learn that could be

to penner. gagner tangling up. green also bumping his teammate there. quintin laing lobbed away. >> craig: that's all they have to continue to do, and this team is done. >> joe: four-goal explosion in the third period for the guys in the white sweaters. angling for win number 22 on the campaign. should this hold, the fastest 15 ever recorded in recorded recorded in -- recorded in capitals' franchise history. jurcina as it goes through him. brule shoved down by laich. penner on the perimeter. wrister on the way, knocked down in front of neuvirth. we will keep our eyes on deslauriers. he will lift him for the extra skater, can't do it now. deslauriers recovers. >> craig: he was coming at full speed and said uh-oh. now he's out cleanly because the oilers have the puck. >> joe: semin and ovechkin going the other way. looking for the hat trick, back hands it wide. alex ovechkin trying to reel in the nhl's goal scoring leader with his two tallies in the third. 9-4 in the third. bumped to poti. just over a minute in regulation. nilsson did not keep it away. ba