National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 4, Carolina 2
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Brad Meier, Jean Hebert
Linesmen: David Brisebois, Darren Gibbs
Attendance: 18506
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Carolina 0202
Washington 2204
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
2:46 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Tom Wilson , Curtis Glencross
11:12 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Evgeny Kuznetsov , Matt Niskanen
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
5:00 - Hurricanes Nathan Gerbe (EV) Assists: Alexander Semin
10:33 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Chris Terry , John-Michael Liles
17:06 - Capitals Brooks Laich (EV) Assists: Jason Chimera , Mike Green
18:28 - Capitals Joel Ward (EV) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , Evgeny Kuznetsov
Penalties
None.
3rd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
1:57 - Capitals Evgeny Kuznetsov (2) Slashing
 14:50 - Capitals Brooks Orpik (2) Tripping
Carolina Hurricanes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Cam Ward G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Anton Khudobin G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Ryan Murphy D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 19:26
Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 +1 0 0 17:02
Eric Staal C 1 0 1 E 0 5 17:37
Nathan Gerbe LW 1 0 1 E 0 2 17:05
Andrej Nestrasil C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16:08
Elias Lindholm C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14:29
Jay McClement C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 13:12
Brad Malone C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 11:22
Chris Terry LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 19:16
John-Michael Liles D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 19:55
Justin Faulk D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 24:46
Alexander Semin RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 15:24
Patrick Dwyer RW 0 0 0 -2 0 2 12:07
Danny Biega D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 16:51
Victor Rask C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 13:33
Jeff Skinner LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 14:09
Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 23:20
Brett Bellemore D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 14:18
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Justin Peters G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Braden Holtby G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 E 0 0 21:27
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 16:51
Alex Ovechkin RW 1 1 2 +2 0 4 15:13
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 14:14
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 18:00
Troy Brouwer RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 19:09
Brooks Laich C 1 0 1 E 0 1 15:02
Curtis Glencross LW 0 1 1 E 0 0 10:12
Jason Chimera LW 0 1 1 E 0 0 14:02
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 E 0 2 20:17
Joel Ward RW 1 0 1 +2 0 1 16:00
Tom Wilson RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 10:49
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 23:00
Michael Latta C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 10:31
Mike Green D 1 1 2 +3 0 2 16:02
John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 22:31
Marcus Johansson C 0 0 0 E 0 2 17:05
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 2 2 +2 2 1 15:35
Goaltending
Carolina
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cam Ward L (20-22-5) 20 16 4 .800 0 60:00
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Braden Holtby W (38-19-9) 25 23 2 .920 0 60:00