National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 5, Washington 3
Saturday, January 4, 2014 8:00 PM
When: 8:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 4, 2014
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Tom Kowal, Wes McCauley
Linesmen: Don Henderson, Andy McElman
Attendance: 19022
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 2103
Minnesota 0415
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
12:02 - Capitals Marcus Johansson (PP) Assists: Alexander Ovechkin , Nicklas Backstrom
12:15 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Jason Chimera , Joel Ward
Penalties
10:37 - Wild Dany Heatley (2) Slashing
 14:17 - Capitals Troy Brouwer (2) Hooking
 17:15 - Wild Nate Prosser (5) Fighting
 17:15 - Capitals Troy Brouwer (5) Fighting
 19:29 - Wild Matt Cooke (2) Unsportsmanlike conduct
 19:29 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (2) Unsportsmanlike conduct
2nd Period
Scoring
2:16 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Charlie Coyle , Matt Cooke
6:56 - Wild Ryan Suter (PP) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Mikael Granlund
7:38 - Wild Ryan Suter (PP) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Dany Heatley
13:50 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Brooks Laich
17:04 - Wild Jason Zucker (PP) Assists: Keith Ballard , Jonas Brodin
Penalties
6:30 - Capitals Steve Oleksy (2) Roughing
 6:35 - Capitals Karl Alzner (2) Delay of game
 15:32 - Capitals Mikhail Grabovski (2) Delay of game
3rd Period
Scoring
7:37 - Wild Ryan Suter (EV) Assists: Clayton Stoner
Penalties
5:30 - Wild Ryan Suter (2) Tripping
 10:42 - Capitals Jay Beagle (2) Tripping
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 58:19
John Erskine D 0 0 0 E 0 1 14:41
Alexander Ovechkin RW 0 1 1 -2 2 7 21:24
Martin Erat RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 7:27
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 17:15
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 E 0 2 21:29
Troy Brouwer RW 0 0 0 E 7 2 18:11
Brooks Laich C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 14:39
Jason Chimera LW 0 1 1 +2 0 1 12:44
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 E 2 1 19:25
Joel Ward RW 0 1 1 +1 0 0 14:07
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 3:46
Mike Green D 2 0 2 E 0 6 20:06
Steve Oleksy D 0 0 0 E 2 0 14:33
John Carlson D 0 0 0 E 0 3 25:16
Dmitri Orlov D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 21:51
Jay Beagle RW 0 0 0 -1 2 0 7:22
Mikhail Grabovski C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 20:02
Marcus Johansson C 1 0 1 E 0 3 18:22
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Darcy Kuemper G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Keith Ballard D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 13:13
Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 E 0 0 15:34
Clayton Stoner D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 13:07
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 17:49
Mikko Koivu C 0 2 2 E 0 0 18:31
Dany Heatley LW 0 1 1 E 2 2 19:47
Jason Zucker LW 1 0 1 -1 0 1 11:29
Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 E 0 0 12:31
Stephane Veilleux LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10:43
Ryan Suter D 3 0 3 +2 2 3 31:06
Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 E 0 0 16:25
Nino Niederreiter RW 1 0 1 +2 0 1 13:32
Matt Cooke LW 0 1 1 E 2 1 15:01
Jonas Brodin D 0 1 1 E 0 0 25:31
Jason Pominville RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 22:16
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 5 0 15:35
Brett Bulmer RW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 6:18
Mikael Granlund C 0 1 1 E 0 0 16:07
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Braden Holtby L (13-11-2) 11 6 5 .545 0 58:19
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom W (4-9-2) 30 27 3 .900 0 60:00