First Period: The first minute of the game featured a very scary moment when Miles Wood deflected a pass across the neutral zone. It rose up and hit Evgeny Kuznetsov in the face. Fortunately, he was not seriously hurt and stayed on the bench.
Cory Schneider made a great save just over two minutes into the game on a partial breakaway for Alex Ovechkin. Just seconds later, Kuznetsov passed it across the zone to the circle, and the Ovechkin one-timer lasered past Schneider. Mirco Mueller was playing very loose, and he was not in position to either block the pass or the shot, nor could he take the body on Ovechkin.