Today, the Caps faced the Canadiens de Montréal in a virtual must win with their surging archrival Winnipeg Jets having secured a point in a shootout loss to the Islanders this afternoon. With the point, the Jets pulled to within one point of the division lead, but gave the caps a game in hand which they burned tonight in Montreal. The caps came out firing and did away with the horrid memories of an ugly 3-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators in the Canadian Capital. The Caps jumped early with two goals from Alexander Ovechkin and Troy Brouwer to take a 2-0 lead 5 minutes into the 1st period. Brouwer would add a second tally in the second period, and Backstrom added another to give the Caps a 4-0 lead heading into the 2nd intermission. Then in the 3rd Ovechkin scored a power play goal to to give the caps a secure 5-0 lead which was only blemished once. On Tuesday the Caps have their most important game of the season against those same Winnipeg Jets.