jacques martin changing them up. jurcina, you watch him from a nice point of view, all the way through. hamrlik using the wall and back to center she comes for cammalleri in the final 35 seconds of the second stanza. sergei kostitsyn keeping three caps company. gorges shuffles it ahead. >> craig: the capitals not as effective with the puck in this second period. looks like the habs have turned up the pressure and that's why they're looking for more stretch passes and the puck is bouncing, not on their stick in this period. >> joe: 12 seconds with which to work. plekanec to cammalleri. to the inside. beneath the boot of moen. four seconds now, three, tomas fleischmann gets it out and the second period is done. montreal fans better than 21,000, saluting tomas plekanec, the last man on the board. he and jaroslav spacek a pair of czech republic natives denting the twine just over eight minutes apart. we are 2-2. netstar 1 intermission live coming up, a continuation of russ naylor's conversation with alex semin the injure

jacques martin burned it when he was behind. the capitals two tallies in the first 12 minutes apart. montreal three in a row, spacek, plekanec and moen for a 3-2 lead. semyon varlamov watching from the bench now with six skaters on. he is our palm restaurant capitals player of the game with his 19 stops. >> craig: yeah. and several of those were game safers. he came up big when he had to. the goals that got by him screens and picks. >> joe: the youngest russian ever to start an nhl game in goal. he did it right here against montreal. he prevailed last december with goal tending legend vlad trechak in the stand. canadiens power is on right now. washington with the skoal and score! eric fehr! ties it at 3. >> craig: textbook face-off play. i thought the montreal canadiens weren't lined up all that well. they left the boards open but it's nick backstrom that works the face-off and actually uses a foot wedge to kick it back. and that starts the whole play. watch this. kicks it back, ovechkin the shot. [ cheers and applause ] . >> cr