The Boston Bruins seemingly played the Washington Capitals every other game in the past two weeks. The two met again yesterday afternoon in Washington. After the B’s beat the Flyers in a thrilling overtime game on Saturday, Boston lost to the Capitals 2-1 in a shootout on Sunday. The good news, Boston  gained a point to move three ahead of the cut off for a playoff spot, the point also earns them a tie with the sixth place New York Rangers.

Boston, again played without their captain Zdeno Chara. Big Z missed a fifth straight game with an undisclosed upper body injury Sunday. Rumors that Chara might be shut down for the remainder of the season was dismissed by his agent, “He’s banged up, that’s about all I can say about it,” said Matt Keator. “He’s definitely not finished for the season. He should be fine. I don’t think he is going to miss much time at all.”

As for the game, Chuck Kobasew score again for the Bruins. After going 15 straight games without a goal, Kobasew finally scored his 20th of the season on Thursday in the Bruins’ 3-1 loss to Tampa Bay. After scoring three goals in his last three games, Kobasew has set a new career high in goals with 22.

Alex Auld made the start in goal for the Black and Gold and had another solid game between the pipes. Auld stopped 32 of 33 shots he face with Sergei Federov putting the only regulation shot passed the netminder. Washington’s goalie Christobal Huet continued he season long stellar play against Boston as he stopped 39 of the Bruins shots and stuffed both of Boston’s shooters in the shootout. Alexander Semin and Victor Kozlov scored shootout goal’s for Washington , and Huet blanked both Phil Kessel and Ckuck Kobasew on their tries.

 Here is how the playoff picture looks today. *Top eight teams make the playoffs*

     Team                      Points        Games Remaining
 1    New Jersey          90                    10
 2    Montreal               89                      9
 3    Carolina                83                      8                   
 4    Pittsburgh             89                    10
 5    Ottawa                   87                      9
 6    NY Rangers          83                    10
 7    Boston                   83                     9
 8    Philadelphia          80                     9
 9    Buffalo                    79                     9
10   Washington           78                     9
11    Florida                   78                     8

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