cut down by sneed. sneed with plenty of open space to clear. green to turn out of his own zone. on for backstrom. slicing between defenders. 24 seconds with which to work on the bo power play. green a fine pass. trying to go tap tap for semin at the doorstep, but it never arrived. green for o'vetchic, it's the breaks, scanning the defense win to win for backstrom along with sneed, backstrom serving it ovechkin fires. that's blocked. beautifully timed by morrow. green on the overlap. wrister coming, deflected wide by laich. laich wide and fires. m. the center for dc as the caps are in the middle of a shift change. nearing the 8 minutes mark of the second period. >> craig: the edmonton oilers doing a lot to help out their goalie. >> joe: quintin laing coming in. deflected wide by laing. charging after sneed who has to be dog tired now. going the other way for edmonton. the youngster down the flank. racedraced there by jurcina. quinlan lane and tech -- quinn tan laing and steckel. on the offside rush for edmonton. the oilers looking to get back in the win column here at home. o'sul

sneed will set it up for cogliano. -- >> craig: doing a lap in just about 14 seconds, joe. that's fast. >> joe: here he comes. shoved along the dasher board. n. this one will send semin the other way. alexander semin hooking off. reenforcements are coming. there's backstrom muscled well wide. poty had time. gilbert is there. american born blue liner getting help from horcoff. no score on the big boards, where it marts the most. the capitals with the highest first scoring team in the business. stone letting it go. >> craig: that's a great save. there ryan stone coming in, all alone. he's a second rounder, joe. and he just let that fly. good breakout and passing sequence there. i like his start so far for neuvirth. much better than not carrying over his floor play against the league. >> joe: fun to talk to mike when he learned to speak english in plymouth. >> craig: he had to get used to the nfl shots and puck movement. when you don't play a lot, there's a big change from playing in the american league to the nhl. >> joe: quinten laing back. now they are back in transition. t

full glass it's sneed. 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