The Bruins ended their preseason today with a thrilling 5-4 shootout victory over the red hot Capitals. The Bruins end the pre-season 3-4-1 while the Caps dropped to 5-2.

After each team received a penalty within the first 90 seconds of the game, Chris Clark opened up the scoring for the Caps. Later in the period, David Krejci got spun around by Shaone Morrison but somehow the puck fell onto his stick and he knotted the game up at one. Shawn Thornton struck first in the second period with a dump into the goal mouth which found its way behind Jose Theodore.

The Caps answered with 64 seconds to go in the period when Alexander Semin took the puck from a slipping Andrew Alberts and found Alex Ovechkin on the doorstep. In the third period four goals were scored in 3:05. Krejci put home his second of the game. Mike Green answered for the Caps but before the celebration ended Chuck Kobasew put the Bruins back up by one.

42 seconds later Chris Bourque, son of ex-Bruin and future Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, tied it up for the Caps. Overtime went by quietly for the most part. The best chance for either side was a Phil Kessel stuff shot with 18 seconds to go that was stopped by the desperate glove of Theodore. In the shootout the Caps shot first and sent Michael Nylander, Ovechkin and Semin to shoot but only Ovechkin scored on Manny Fernandez.

Kessel and Patrice Bergeron scored for the Bruins. Both shootout goals for the Bruins came with Theodore's help. Kessel beat Theodore five-hole and got a kick by Theodore to squeak the puck over the line. Bergeron on the other hand forced Theodore back into the goal to make the stop but the referee saw the puck cross the red goal line.

The Bruins out-shot the Caps 44-24 including 6-0 in overtime.