Backstrom delivers in shootout for Caps

MONTREAL (AP) - Nicklas Backstrom scored the only shootout goal on Washington's third attempt to give the Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens last night.

Semyon Varlamov stopped Montreal shooters Mike Cammalleri, Maxim Lapierre and Tomas Plekanec.

Backstrom secured the win when he put a shot past Carey Price, who had stopped Tomas Fleischmann and Alexander Ovechkin.

Eric Fehr scored his second goal of the game to draw Washington even at 3 with 11.4 seconds remaining in regulation.

Fehr, who opened the scoring 8:47 in, got his second of the game - his sixth of the season - when he backhanded a...