All Your Latest News

Tomas Fleischmann scored on a one-timer from the right circle with 1:40 remaining in overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night.

The NHL-leading Capitals have earned a standings point in 15 straight home games and haven’t lost at home in regulation in 2010. Washington had a franchise-record 13-game home winning streak snapped Wednesday night in a shootout loss to Dallas.

Defenceman Mike Green scored twice, Alexander Semin got his 31st, and Jose Theodore made 28 saves for the Capitals. Alexander Ovechkin, tied with Sidney Crosby for the NHL goal-scoring lead with 44, was held to one help.

Carolina is the last team to beat Washington in regulation at the Verizon Center, winning 6-3 on Dec. 28 when the Hurricanes held the bottom spot in the Eastern Conference.

Jussi Jokinen scored his 27th goal, and Patrick Dwyer and Tuomo Ruutu also scored for the Hurricanes, who had won eight of their previous nine to climb out of the conference cellar.

The Capitals blew leads of 2-0 and 3-2 before pulling out the win. As many goals as they have scored this season, one would reckon they’d know how to celebrate. Yet here was the tally after the first period: two goals, two pratfalls.

After Semin scored with his backhand on a breakaway, sprung by a long pass from Brendan Morrison, the Russian winger lost his balance and spun awkwardly like a sausage, a bit of panic in his face as he slid toward the boards.

Then, when Green made it 2-0 with a wrister from the right circle on the power play, the defenceman skated to the corner and completely lost his footing, looking like a first-time skater at a community rink as his body plopped to the ice.

The Hurricanes got on the scoreboard 18 seconds after Green’s goal when Dwyer scooped in a loose puck by the crease. The Carolina’s credit, everyone stayed upright during the celebration.

Chad LaRose picked off a pass in the Capitals’ defensive zone to set up a 2-on-1 with Ruutu, who tied the score at 2-2 in the second period. Washington retook the lead when Manny Legace was screened by at least four people and let Green’s wrister get through on a power play. Legace complained in vain for goalie interference, while Green celebrated his second goal of the game by pumping his fist — without falling over.

Jokinen’s power-play goal, a wrist shot off a feed from Ruutu, tied the score at 3-3 late in the second.

Tomas Fleischmann scored on a one-timer from the right circle with 1:40 remaining in overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night.

The NHL-leading Capitals have earned a standings point in 15 straight home games and haven’t lost at home in regulation in 2010. Washington had a franchise-record 13-game home winning streak snapped Wednesday night in a shootout loss to Dallas.

Defenceman Mike Green scored twice, Alexander Semin got his 31st, and Jose Theodore made 28 saves for the Capitals. Alexander Ovechkin, tied with Sidney Crosby for the NHL goal-scoring lead with 44, was held to one help.

Carolina is the last team to beat Washington in regulation at the Verizon Center, winning 6-3 on Dec. 28 when the Hurricanes held the bottom spot in the Eastern Conference.

Jussi Jokinen scored his 27th goal, and Patrick Dwyer and Tuomo Ruutu also scored for the Hurricanes, who had won eight of their previous nine to climb out of the conference cellar.

The Capitals blew leads of 2-0 and 3-2 before pulling out the win. As many goals as they have scored this season, one would reckon they’d know how to celebrate. Yet here was the tally after the first period: two goals, two pratfalls.

After Semin scored with his backhand on a breakaway, sprung by a long pass from Brendan Morrison, the Russian winger lost his balance and spun awkwardly like a sausage, a bit of panic in his face as he slid toward the boards.

Then, when Green made it 2-0 with a wrister from the right circle on the power play, the defenceman skated to the corner and completely lost his footing, looking like a first-time skater at a community rink as his body plopped to the ice.

The Hurricanes got on the scoreboard 18 seconds after Green’s goal when Dwyer scooped in a loose puck by the crease. The Carolina’s credit, everyone stayed upright during the celebration.

Chad LaRose picked off a pass in the Capitals’ defensive zone to set up a 2-on-1 with Ruutu, who tied the score at 2-2 in the second period. Washington retook the lead when Manny Legace was screened by at least four people and let Green’s wrister get through on a power play. Legace complained in vain for goalie interference, while Green celebrated his second goal of the game by pumping his fist — without falling over.

Jokinen’s power-play goal, a wrist shot off a feed from Ruutu, tied the score at 3-3 late in the second.

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 is by history professor John English. (Random House)

A biography of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing on Wednesday evening.

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000, by University of Waterloo history professor John English, shines light on Trudeau’s legacy. The book also has also been nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction.

“Just Watch Me sets a new literary standard for Canadian political biography,” the jury said in its citation.

“Drawing upon previously inaccessible materials, John English deepens our understanding of the private, as well as the public, life of Pierre Trudeau.”

English’s first book about Trudeau, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919-1968 was nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize in 2006.

English was approached by the Trudeau family to write the biography and had access to notes and personal papers that earlier biographers hadn’t seen.

Trudeau, who captured the public imagination with a mix of clever politics and whimsy, is considered alternately the greatest Canadian prime minister and the most reviled.

English won $25,000 at the Politics and the Pen gala on Wednesday evening in Ottawa. The prize is named for an outspoken MP from Windsor, Ont., who died in 1998.

The other finalists for the award won $2,500. They are:

• Terry Gould of Vancouver for Murder Without Borders: Dying For the Tale in the World’s Most Perilous Places.
• Rudyard Griffiths of Toronto for Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto.
• James Maskalyk of Toronto for Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village.
• Daniel Poliquin of Montreal for René Lévesque.