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Canwest News Service
"I didn't have the puck … I feel very frustrated."
-Alex Ovechkin, summing up his night perfectly.
"It was a knuckle shot. He's not going to beat me from there with a wrist shot. Come on."
— Roberto Luongo on why he whiffed on a 31-foot Alexander Semin floater. The thing is, the puck never knuckled. Could it be Luongo got caught watching Tanner Glass explode into Brooks Laich sending the Capitals forward tumbling head-over-heels into Mikael Samuelsson's lap. Nah, Luongo would never be distracted after a big hit. Would he?
"I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but lots of times I was a couple steps out of my crease when those guys had the puck."
-Luongo, nodding to the fact he was playing shot all night when either Alexander Ovechkin or Alexander Semin had the puck.
"Expectations are so high every night for him. Ninety-five per cent of the time
he delivers. He still generated some chances, maybe not as much as normal, but he still had chances. But we can't expect to ride Ovie every night. We need to have other guys step up. We had our chances but didn't capitalize."
— Brendan Morrison on Alex Ovechkin
"I just thought he fell down. I just bumped him and he falls down. I thought it was a
dive. I said that to the ref and I slammed the door and he gave me two more. It is what it is. If he (Burrows) wants to make the ref look like a fool, then he can."
— Capitals defenceman Tom Poti on the controversial double minor he got for knocking down and slamming the penalty box door.
