Capitals Stink Against Senators

Todd Warriner scored two goals, but it wasn't enough for the Washington Capitals on Day 71. The Ottawa Senators skated to a 5-3 victory to drop Washington to 14-22-3 for the season.

Ottawa stormed out to a 3-0 lead in the first 11:35 of the opening period. Smirnov started it off from Gill and Snyder at 1:58, before Selanne scored an unassisted goal at 8:56. Bouchard connected on the power play from Novak to make it 3-0. The Capitals finally got on the board when Warriner converted from Jonathan Cheechoo and Bryan Berard at 15:34.

Neither team scored in the second period, but Washington pulled within one goal midway through the third. Patrick Marleau was the scorer from Berard and Andrew Ference at 11:31. The Sens responded to regain its two-goal edge on Kelly's 10th of the season just 37 seconds later. Warriner scored his second of the game, this time from Severin Blindenbacher, at 17:13, but Ottawa put the game away with just 57 seconds remaining. Selanne was the scorer from Poti and Morrison.

JS Giguere made 27 saves in the loss and fell to 16-13-4. Chris Osgood stopped 28 shots in the win.

The Capitals are off for two days before visiting Edmonton on Day 74.