Sundin All Smiles As Leafs Down Capitals
Posted March 1, 2008 12:00 pm.
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Mats Sundin had a goal and two assists as the Maple Leafs beat the Capitals 3-2 on Saturday night.
Bryan McCabe also had two assists for Toronto, which improved to 4-0-1 in its last five games.
Alex Ovechkin ended a seven-game drought without a goal and added an assist to lead the Capitals.
Two shots by Sundin from the top of the circles led to two goals and gave Toronto the lead in the second period.
With Washington leading 1-0, Sundin took a shot from the top of the left circle that Nikolai Antropov deflected up and over Olie Kolzig for a power-play goal 1:06 into the second period.
Sundin made it 2-1 at the 10:51 mark when he took a short pass from McCabe and his shot from the top of the right circle — nearly a mirror image of the earlier goal — went past Kolzig.
Sundin was again in the middle of the action on Toronto’s goal early in the final period. He picked up a loose puck behind the Capitals net and passed to Alex Steen.
Steen took the pass in front of the left post and put the puck in the bottom right corner 5:42 into the period. It was Steen’s second goal in two games, and his 13th this season.
The Capitals made it a one-goal game again when Victor Kozlov scored a few minutes later. He picked up a rebound on Ovechkin’s shot and his shot glanced off of Vesa Toskala’s glove before ending up in the net.
Ovechkin scored the first goal of the game at 15:47 of the first period when he zipped a shot past Toskala from a few feet above the top of the left circle. The goal ended a career-long drought for Ovechkin, who leads the league with 49 goals.
