Caps Thrash Thrashers

The Caps played there best game of the year scoring goals in bunches and getting real swell goaltending winning in a blowout 8-1. Knuble scored the first on a redirect in front of the net deflecting the puck into the net his 9th from Poti and SHultz. Semin then scored shorthanded on a mean wrister to the roof his 17th from Laich and green. Backstrom would score a PPG when a pass was tipped wound up on his stick in front of the net just the goalie to beat and he scored on a flip in his 18th from Green. Lnuvle would score on a juicy rebound when he stopped the puck bounced off his skate and into the bakc of the net his 10th from Ovechkin and Schlutz. ATlanta would score on a sneaky wrister that trickled through Neuvirth he tried to swat it away from net but was just a tad late. Semin would score on a greta pass from Fleichamn he would one time slpa it inot the net his 18th from fleichman and Poti. Steckel would get a feed heaidng to the net and get his stick on it and tip it in five hole his 3rd from Bardley and Boyd. Poti would fire a one time slapper into the low corenre near side on the PP his 1st from Smein and Pothier. Then Chimera would be in ront of the net just him and the goalie and he would fire it top shelf roof job into the net his 9th (1st as a Cap) from B. Morrison and Fehr and thats 8-1 and a big Caps win on Bruce Boudreau's b-day happy Birthday Bruce. faceoffs 32-36 Atl Hits 18-19 Atl shots 37-39 ATl Neuvirth 38 saves PPs Caps 2-3 Atl 0-3 and the Caps improve to 27-11-6 60 pts and next up a trip to Tampa on Tuesday to bottle up the Lightning. LETS GO CAPS IN TAMPA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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