tomas fleischmann down the wing. steps to the middle. criss-crossing. turns and fired with. eischmann, semin and fehr on the board and georges and pouliot for montreal. hamrlik swivels and fires. he gets help on the rebound from fleischmann. >> craig: not the prettiest of rebound controls. fortunately for him a lot of red in front of him. >> joe: cammalleri softly to the front. there's a penalty call here. it's a slash. pivotal splay coming your wy comcast sportsnet in what's turning out to be a nail-biter. >> craig: two quick goals in 30 seconds for the caps. just after that face-off at center here comes tom poti and alexander semin. our morgan franklin pivotal plays. >> joe: nervous moments now. knuble. >> craig: back-to-back for him. >> joe: andd now it's flash. gionta and gomez on the ice and bergeron and markov. >> craig: miscommunication from bergeron and markov. neither went for it. >> joe: laichs blisters one wide. that it makes him tough to read. gionta snapped out of the air by neuvirth. >> craig: good stop there. nice shot off the sharp angle. this is where he's go

has done shuffling to try and shuffle his team. >> craig: the one guy to watch in the lines is tomas fleischmann's playing center regularly tonight. they are looking for the speed and passing able of tomas see their i say kiddingly your experiment is in order. it rolls right to carey price. >> craig: for the visitors canadiens they go to price. 10, 14, 3. recently he doesn't allow a lot of goals. make it one just about per game. michal neuvirth gets the nod. he's had goods outings for the caps. >> joe: he suffered one loss to montreal. came here back in november. cammalleri the leader for the canadiens. these usually play one game performances. knocked down in front. semin is there. and it's battled away but not cleared. schultz in tight quarters along the board. below the goal line. a rely and a snare. >> craig: carey price to the right way in the corner getting to the right to get it. that rush to the net by alexander semin. >> new year to brooks laich. one bump for brendan morrison. erskine is blocked. >> craig: with fleischmann moving to the center, that means brooks laich goes back to his m

tomas fleischmann. a whistle and a hand pass against the caps. 9:24 to go, second period. washington's lead is three. the man last on the scoreboard for new york, kyle okposo camped out in the slot. the rookie taveras finds him and it's high fives all the way around. runogervais. on turn your back, you're looking for trouble. look at him turn away from the puck thats ch joitd. came back the -- >> joe: this fi eamish. >> craig: no, hould ing co sav or m carance : dorliels p a iddl dle ♪ or m carance :chhaw yot p a iddl : ge5 micoul % oron cinsuget hou he3 o 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 >> joe: let's dig in gand. caps don't have to face those great islanders and the raptors. they're facing the present day islanders and beating them by four after two periods of play. this is the latest in the season the capabilities have led their conference and they're tried trying to add to that lead tonight. six goals on the board. amazi

move proved to be very beneficial when tomas fleischmann was moved to the center and scored the power play goal investment important. do you expect him to stay in the spot for a sfwhiel. >> at least for tonight. bruce hasn't kept his lines together that long. brooks laich thought he wasplaying center the other night and found out prior to the game he was going to stay on the wing. i don't think anything can go wrong either way and gives them another option at the end of the season. i'll expect him to be there for tonight. next game, i wouldn't expect to see him by the way things have gone. >> definitely likes to shuffle those lines. brian may, thank you very much. as always, we look forward to your post-game summary. >> thank you. >> ottawa has not faired very well here in dc. they have lost their last six dating back to march of 2006. >> lisa hillary, thank you very much. looking forward to your reports from verizon center later tonight. coming up after "geico sportsnite", stay tuned for the senators-capitals in splendiferous hi-definition on comcast sportsnet. when it's done, al cok

tomas fleischmann goes board to board. that's for schultz. gervais peeks at him. laich quick delivery fleischmann inside for alexander semin. behind the back for laich. he backhands it wide. trent hunter the other way for new york and a hustling alexander semin wins it for washington. zooming through center, it's fleischmann. no farther than hunter. moulson jams it ahead. green will reload. shots on goal unofficially early gg going three apiece as we near the 5:00 mark. brendan morrison is take washington to the lead. alexander semin off the curl and drag. fires and scores! 2-0, dc. >> craig: i was just going to say the caps are outskating this islander team early on. they're watching the caps rather than responding. alexander semin, what a goal once again. when he gets hot, there's not many better scorers in the national hockey league. he registers number 22 on the season it starts with a strip. starts with the attack. then, there's high heat. roloson's glove doesn't get there in time. that's just a scorching shot to the top shelf and just like that, semin and his