National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 3, Minnesota 2
Friday, February 26, 2016 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Friday, February 26, 2016
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Jean Hebert, Justin St. Pierre
Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Tony Sericolo
Attendance: 18605
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Minnesota 1102
Washington 0123
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
19:18 - Wild Mikko Koivu (PP) Assists: Ryan Suter , Jason Pominville
Penalties
5:54 - Capitals Brooks Orpik (2) Holding the stick
 12:50 - Capitals Matt Niskanen (2) Roughing
 17:44 - Capitals Tom Wilson (2) Tripping
2nd Period
Scoring
0:49 - Capitals Brooks Orpik (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom , Alex Ovechkin
5:05 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Ryan Suter , Jason Pominville
Penalties
None.
3rd Period
Scoring
4:35 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (PP) Assists: Matt Niskanen , Nicklas Backstrom
14:56 - Capitals Dmitry Orlov (EV) Assists: Andre Burakovsky , Evgeny Kuznetsov
Penalties
4:06 - Wild Darcy Kuemper (2) Delay of game
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Darcy Kuemper G 0 0 0 2 0 58:32
Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 21:07
Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 E 0 2 12:14
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 21:25
Chris Porter LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 9:57
Mikko Koivu C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 21:56
Jordan Schroeder C 0 0 0 E 0 2 8:44
Justin Fontaine RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 9:00
Ryan Carter LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 15:01
Jarret Stoll C 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:03
Ryan Suter D 0 2 2 -1 0 2 28:02
Nino Niederreiter RW 1 0 1 -1 0 4 17:09
Mathew Dumba D 0 0 0 E 0 1 18:09
Thomas Vanek LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 17:51
Jason Pominville RW 0 2 2 E 0 2 16:54
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 0 0 14:45
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 E 0 2 25:25
Erik Haula C 0 0 0 E 0 1 14:27
Mikael Granlund C 0 0 0 E 0 7 18:50
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Philipp Grubauer 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 2 3 22:23
Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 14:11
Alex Ovechkin LW 1 1 2 +1 0 4 19:13
Dmitry Orlov D 1 0 1 +2 0 1 20:44
Mike Richards C 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:46
Justin Williams RW 0 0 0 E 0 4 15:22
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 +1 0 0 19:16
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 E 0 0 6:25
Jason Chimera LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 15:43
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 E 0 1 21:06
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 E 2 1 16:04
Brooks Orpik D 1 0 1 +2 2 1 24:44
Stanislav Galiev RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 6:27
Andre Burakovsky LW 0 1 1 E 0 3 16:07
T.J. Oshie RW 0 0 0 +1 0 2 18:42
Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16:41
Marcus Johansson LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 16:00
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 E 0 2 16:32
Goaltending
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Darcy Kuemper L (6-4-5) 27 24 3 .889 2 58:32
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Braden Holtby W (39-7-3) 32 30 2 .938 0 60:00