The Montreal Canadiens are in fine form with four straight wins while the Washington Capitals are trying to find their footing after snapping a four-game losing streak. Advantage Canadiens when the two clubs battle at the Bell Centre on Saturday afternoon. The Canadiens have gone 14-3-1 in their last 18 to pull within one point of the Eastern Conference lead with Carey Price going 12-2-1 with a 1.53 goals-against average in that span. His 2.09 GAA is a career best and puts him among the NHL leaders. I am just worried about doing my job - stopping the next shot, Price said. Its fun to win games 6-5, but if we want to be successful, were going to have to really bear down on those low-scoring checking games. Pacioretty is among the league leaders with 22 goals, but has scored once in 18 career matchups with Washington - his lowest total against any East team. The Capitals might be playing in the perfect place as they look to end their road woes. Theyve won seven in a row at the Bell Centre, with four of the victories being shutouts, and are 8-0-1 in the past nine there. Washington has taken the last two such meetings by a 10-1 score. The Canadiens won the only game against Washington this season 2-1 in a shootout Oct. 9, but the Capitals have gone 17-4-3 in the past 24 matchups. Washingtons 2.50 goals-against average has it among the NHL leaders, but it gave up 17 non-shootout goals during an 0-3-1 stretch. The Capitals (25-14-9) bounced back with a 4-0 victory over Pittsburgh on Wednesday, limiting the Penguins to 27 shots and 16 over the final two periods. Washington is 21-2-2 when allowing two or fewer goals. Braden Holtby recorded his career-high fifth shutout, Alex Ovechkin scored twice and Nicklas Backstrom raised his team-leading point total to 50 with two assists. We have a lot of big guys on our team that can play a skill game, play a physical game, play a defensive game, forward Eric Fehr told the Capitals official website. We like to think we can adapt to anything, especially with our d-men. They can play strong defensively, and they can get up the ice and be really effective. Ovechkins has 13 goals in his last 13 games and moved into the league lead with 29. When Alex is determined, the way he is lately, I think he just creates so much good offense, coach Barry Trotz said. Hes dangerous every night. You look at the stat sheet, whether he scores or not, hes got 10 shots. Theres guys in the league who go a month without 10 shots sometimes. Ovechkin will be tested against Montreal (31-13-3), which has allowed three goals over the past three games. The Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 1-0 on Thursday behind Carey Prices 24 saves and Max Paciorettys goal late in the third period. Hydro Flask Termoska . 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PARIS -- Novak Djokovic won his 15th straight match and Roger Federer beat a top-10 player for the first time since January, setting up a semifinal match between the two at the Paris Masters. Djokovic beat Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 Friday, while Federer overcame Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal also moved into the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Richard Gasquet of France and will play defending champion David Ferrer, who rallied past Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. The last time Federer defeated a top-10 player was when he outlasted Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. "Thats definitely good for my confidence, because those are the kind of wins I need right now," Federer said. "Im happy now I won against a top-10 again, especially just before London where I will have to play against three top-10 players in a row." The eight quarterfinalists at the Paris Masters are the same eight who have qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals in London next week. Federer avenged last weekends loss to del Potro in the Swiss Indoors final. The 17-time Grand Slam champion played nearly flawless tennis in the first set, making 17 winners and only four unforced errors. Del Potro fought back in the second set, saving a break point in the opening game before converting his second break chance at 5-4 to level the match when the fifth-seeded Swiss netted a forehand. In the deciding set, del Potro sent a forehand into the net to drop serve at 3-3 and Federer won the match when the Argentine hit a forehand long. Djokovic, wwho saved all six break points he faced, won 13 of 19 points at the net.dddddddddddd "Coming to the net is one of the improvements that I had recently," the second-seeded Serb said. "It didnt click so fast, trust me. I had to work and put in many, many hours on the practice court that you guys dont see." Wawrinka lost five-setters against Djokovic at the Australian Open and the U.S. Open this year. "When he plays that good its very difficult, especially on this surface where hes the best, I believe," Wawrinka said. Nadal improved his record against Gasquet to 12-0 despite a crowd cheering loudly for the only Frenchman left in the draw. The Spaniard, who is seeking a record sixth Masters title in a single season, broke for a 4-3 lead with a crosscourt backhand return winner. Gasquet struggled with his one-handed backhand against Nadals powerful groundstrokes and the U.S. Open champion went a set up when the Frenchman made a backhand error. Nadal took a 4-0 lead in the second set and finished off Gasquet by whipping a forehand winner down the line. "Winning a match against him before the end of my career is going to be extremely difficult," Gasquet said. "I would like to, but hes getting better and better." Nadal has now a 32-2 record on hard courts this season, having been sidelined much of last year with a knee injury. "Probably the injury that I had (forced) me to play more aggressive than before, and that helped me a lot to play better on hard," Nadal said. Nadal unseated Djokovic atop the rankings by reaching the final of the China Open last month. ' ' '