Caps Win vs Montreal 2-1

Well look what the Caps keep doing winning. Varlomov the rookie goalie for the Caps was just spectaculiar tonight with 32 saves and one goal allowed. He was the vaunted first star in just his first start and got his very first win. The Caps scored on an early PP with Nik Backstrom netting one( assisted by Ovechkin and Semin). Montreal would tie on a 4 on 4 goal from Briesbros. But late in the third the Caps scored the most important goal one on a rebound follow from Nylander which he got a stick on and the puck hit the goalie and was then hit in on the follow. (who got it Nylander on a greta play (assisted by Giroux and Kozlov. That's how it would end with a 2-1 margin for the Caps. Nylander was awqarded the 2nd star and Havlak Montreal's goalie got third. The Caps now have 39 points which is third overall in the East and tops in the Southeast division 8 ahead of Florida and Carolina. The Caps now have a three game win streak and in interessting situation with Varlomov who could replace Jose Theodore on the Caps bench as a top reserve goalie. He was great in ythe 08 and might just get Theodore to a new location. The csaps are 18-10-3 and hust barley avoided an OT tonight vs Monteral tehy next face the NY ISlanders on Tuesday on Versus. That should be a good tilt as the Caps are hungry to get to second or first in the East as they trail the NY Rangers by 3 points but have played 2 less games than NY. Boston is first with 46 7 ahead of the Cpas but also a team they Caps recently conquered. Caps another fine performance and yet anothervictory in what has been a very successful sewason thus far for them. Federov dealt with another injury setvack but should be fine and miss no time.

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