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Flyers top Caps 2-1 in shootout - NHL.com

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Flyers top Caps 2-1 in shootout - NHL.com
Mar 23rd 2012, 02:01

PHILADELPHIA -- Wayne Simmonds scored in the fourth round of the shootout and Ilya Bryzgalov denied Troy Brouwer to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 2-1 victory against the Washington Capitals on Thursday at Wells Fargo Center.

Alex Ovechkin scored the Capitals' only goal just 26 seconds into the game, and rookie goalie Braden Holtby, starting for the second straight game, stopped 27 of 28 shots through 65 minutes.

Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers and goalie Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 30 shots -- including a second-period penalty-shot attempt by the Capitals Marcus Johansson.

The win gives the Flyers 94 points, keeping them four behind fourth-place Pittsburgh and five behind the conference-leading New York Rangers in the East. Eighth-place Washington earned a single point and now has 81 -- putting them one ahead of Buffalo in the battle for the last playoff berth in the conference. The Caps host 10th-place Winnipeg, which trails them by five points, on Friday night after finishing with five points on a five-game trip.

Ovechkin needed just 26 seconds to make an impact on the game. Brooks Laich's aggressive forecheck led to Braydon Coburn turning over the puck to Ovechkin in the left corner in the Flyers' zone. As Ovechkin carried the puck to the net, Bryzgalov poked it away from him, but as Ovechkin bounced off a Nicklas Grossmann check, the puck came right back to him -- and he quickly fired a wrist shot from the slot that beat Bryzgalov for his 33rd of the season, one more than he had in 79 games last season.

It was Ovechkin's third straight game with a goal; he has six in his last five games

Giroux evened the game in the second period with a dazzling burst. Taking a stretch pass from Jaromir Jagr, he sped past a flat-footed Dennis Wideman in the Washington zone. When Holtby came out to attempt a poke check, Giroux dragged the puck around him and scored into a vacated net at 6:05 of the second.

"I just tried to get some speed and get a breakaway," Giroux said. "I was able to beat the guy wide and I wanted to make sure their goalie didn't touch the puck. It turned out well for me."

The Capitals had a chance to go ahead when Marcus Johansson was awarded a penalty shot with 7:02 left in the second. Matt Carle's point shot bounced off Jagr and went the other way. Johansson outraced Carle to the loose puck, and Carle tripped him from behind. However, Johansson couldn't take advantage of his chance as the puck rolled off his stick as he tried to avoid a Bryzgalov poke check.

Both teams had power plays early in the third period but neither could take advantage of the man-advantages. The Capitals started the third with 56 seconds of extra-man time carried over from a Giroux interference penalty, but managed just one shot. The Flyers got a chance just 64 seconds into the period when Jeff Halpern was sent off for holding, but the Flyers couldn't get a shot off while having three shots blocked.

The Flyers had the only two shots in overtime, but Holtby stopped each chance without allowing a rebound.

Contact Adam Kimelman at akimelman@nhl.com. Follow him on Twitter: @NHLAdamK

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