Published 12/19/2008
by Dave Nichols
at Bleacher Report - NHL
The Washington Capitals played a largely-uninterested, uninteresting game against an inferior opponent until late in the second period, when Viktor Kozlov and Tomas Fleischmann scored just 40 seconds apart to spark the Caps to a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Blues before 18,277 fans at the Verizon Center Thursday. The Caps (20-10-3-43, first in the Southeast) have won five in a row and 20 on the season, the fastest any Caps team has reached that mark since the 1992-93 season. Kozlov had two goals and an assist to lead the Caps offense, but the big story was 20-year-old goalie Simeon Varlamov. He made 29 saves, none bigger than the kick save he made against veteran Keith Tkachuk with just under six minutes to play. It was just Varlamov's second NHL start, and this one came with his father in attendance. Varlamov will probably return to Hershey, Penn., when Jose Theodore is pronounced fit to return, but he's shown plenty in his two games, saving 61 of 64 shots (.953 save percentage) in two victories. ...
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