{"id":4977,"date":"2010-04-22T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/04\/caps-beat-habs-lead-series-3-1.html"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:41:00","slug":"caps-beat-habs-lead-series-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/04\/caps-beat-habs-lead-series-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Caps beat Habs, lead series 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Capitals beat Montreal Canadiens, 6-3, in Game 4 of series<\/b><\/a> – The Post<\/i>
Capitals take command of series<\/b><\/a> – The Montreal Gazette<\/i>
With my parenting responsibilities concluded for the evening, I sat down to watch the Washington Capitals. It was the second period and they were losing to the Montr\u00e9al Canadiens 2-1 and and just after I started watching they took a too many men on the ice penalty. The second period was ending, but with about 6.5 seconds left Boyd Gordon made a pretty pass to Mike Knuble<\/span> who banged in a shorthanded goal. That killed the Habs momentum heading into intermission. Goaltender Semyon Varlamov<\/span> kept the Caps in it by saving 20 or 21 shots in the second period.<\/p>\n

In the third period Alex Ovechkin<\/span> score the go-ahead goal with less than nine-minutes to go. Moments later, Jason Chimera<\/span> redirected a Matt Bradley<\/span> pass off of Carey Price<\/span> for the 4th D.C. goal. Price, lost his cool as the game came to a close. He was pulled with about 2.5 minutes left leading to Knuble empty-net goal. The Habs got it back, but with time winding down Nicklas Backstrom<\/span> put one in the empty net again. Final score Washington, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Game 5 is Friday night in Chinatown — hopefully, the Caps can reward the Verizon Center faithful with a series clinching victory.<\/p>\n