Capitals Rout Penguins 6-1 In Crosby's Return
With three of their top offensive players out, the Washington Capitals are still right there atop the Metropolitan Division. Even Sidney Crosby's return couldn't help Pittsburgh keep up.
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With three of their top offensive players out, the Washington Capitals are still right there atop the Metropolitan Division. Even Sidney Crosby's return couldn't help Pittsburgh keep up.
Kasperi Kapanen scored on a one-timer 1:43 into overtime, lifting the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night.
Conor Sheary and Jakub Vrana scored in the second period, and the Washington Capitals stopped a four-game slide by topping the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 on Tuesday night.
Sidney Crosby scored 1:11 into overtime, lifting the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night.
Todd Reirden is back with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The playoffs are still a month away. It just feels like they've already started for the Washington Capitals.
Keeping Ovechkin in check was a big reason for this victory. Ovechkin was held off the score sheet and remained at 37 goals this season and 695 for his career.
Coming into this week, the Pittsburgh Penguins had won nine of 10 meetings in the postseason against the Washington Capitals.
A comeback win for Boston in Game 7. In the other Eastern series, is this finally the year the Caps get past the Penguins?
Things are beginning to heat up around the NHL as we have passed the quarter-mark of the 2017-2018 NHL season. Here are this week's top NHL headlines.
Things are beginning to heat up around the NHL as we approach the quarter-mark of the 2017-2018 NHL season. Here are this week's top NHL headlines.
Chuck Gormley of the NHL Network joined Ed and Rob to talk about the Penguins winning their second straight Stanley Cup.
Sidney Crosby is bringing the Stanley Cup back home to Pittsburgh for a second consecutive year.
Fans in Nashville had a wild Monday night celebrating their team's huge win, but one couple in particular stole the show.
A Tennessee man is calling himself a "dumb redneck with a bad idea" after police filed charges against him for throwing a catfish onto the rink in Pittsburgh during the opening of the Stanley Cup Final.
The Pittsburgh Penguins kept getting by even as their star players kept skating off the ice in pain. Even as the targets on their back as Stanley Cup champions kept getting bigger.
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin finished the playoffs playing through a lower-body injury that required pain-numbing injections.
Washington also boasts the presence of the appropriately nicknamed "Mr. Game 7" Justin Williams, who has recorded seven goals and as many assists, and owns a perfect 7-0 mark in Game 7s in his career.
Alan May of Comcast Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic joined Ed and Rob to preview tonight's game 7 between the Capitals and Penguins.
The Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Monday night to force a Game 7 in their taut Eastern Conference semifinal.
Pittsburgh still leads the series 3-2 going home for Game 6 Monday night, so the pressure remains on Presidents' Trophy-winning Washington, but finally cracking Fleury could make all the difference.
Three goals in five minutes sparked sing-song chants of "FLEU-RY! FLEU-RY!" and might've planted enough of a seed of belief for the Washington Capitals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Evgeny Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin scored 27 seconds apart in the third period as the Washington Capitals avoided elimination by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 in Game 5 on Saturday night.
Rob Carlin of Comcast Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic joined Ed and Rob to talk about the Capitals in a familiar spot in the playoffs...losing to the Penguins.
Forget about revenge for the brutal cross-check that knocked Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby out of the playoffs indefinitely.
