Caps Ice Penguins

The Caps played a great game tonight avenging there playoff loss in a way taking down Pens 3-6. Ovie played hard and you could tell payback was on the Caps aganeda tonight as they played solidy as a team and worked hard the whole game no matter what task was being asked of them especially solid on the PP PK going 2-2 while stopping Pittsburgh all 4 times. lets get to the goals. first one was Pens when Jose mishandled a dump it went to the crease and eventually tipped in but Knuble would answer when a juicy rbeound he sluipped through the pads of the goalie and into to the net his his 14th from Ovechkin and Shaone Morrison Fehr would make it 2-1 when he snapped a shot in fornt of the net it redirected off a stick and caromed inot the back of the net his 13th from Chimera and Shaone a juicy rebound was tipped top a pen adn he had allot of net in sight and scored then a feed from the net to top middle was wristed top shelf for Pittsburgh 2-3 but Ovechkin would fire a mean wrister low and past the gaolei and inot the back of the net his 31st from Brendan Morrison adn Knuble a PPG then Fleichamn would give the Caps the lead for good when Smein saucerd one to him past the d and he skating in all alone to beat the goalie who was Brent Johmnson former Caps backup Tomas hits the bakc of the net his 17th from Semin and Carloson Then backstrom gets the puck behind the net on the PP has top near corner oipen and time and he hits the spot his 21st from Fleichman 5-3 the Ovie ends the game with a puck a move to the blue line his a long shot struck well and hit the cneter of the back of the net his 32nd from Steckel and the Caps have not been scoring on many empty nets so it was good to see this one go for a goal. Faceoffs 41-25 Caps Hits 25-41 Pens Shots 34-38 Pens Jose made 35 svaes Ovie was 1st star with 2 G 1 A Fleichman was 2nd a G a A and the Caps imrpove to 32-12-6 70 pts and heading to the top of the standings now on a 5 game winning streak and all alone atop the East and almost the entire league i believe Chicago has 72 and San Jose too but the Caps need to stay hot so they can fight for 1st in the NHL there is no time to lose so stay hot Caps next up Pheonix visists Verizon Staurday at 7:00 SO LETS GO cAPS VERIZON GET LOUD AND RAUCOS AND ROOT FOR THE EAST LEADER TO STAY LEADER OF THE EAST!!!!!!!!!!

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