Shootout at the OK Corral, mmm...Verizon Center

The newly re-named Verizon Center was host to a very exciting hockey game between the Washington Capitals and the New Jersey Devils. With less than a minute to play, the Caps scored a goal to tie the game 3-3. With the new NHL rules this year, the game went into a 5-minute overtime. With no resulting score, the game then went to a shootout. Each team was given three shots. With each team scoring a goal and the score still tied after each team got three shots, then it went into "sudden death." With the first found of sudden death, each team scored; however, on the second shot of sudden death, the Devils scored and won the game 4-3. The NHL rules conclude that "regardless of the number of goals scored during the shootout portion of overtime, the final score recorded for the game will give the winning team one more goal." It was an exciting game, unfortunately, it would only have been better if the Caps had won!