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Ah, The Igloo – the Caps’ newfound home away from home. Too bad the Pens are moving out just as the Caps are taking their shoes off and putting their feet up on the coffee table, eh? Oh well. We’ll just have to savor next year’s two meetings, I suppose.
All kidding aside, the Caps won their third straight game in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1985 on the strength of a pair of goals and a primary helper on the game-winner from the League’s reigning (and leader at the turn this season) Most Valuable Player, but really, it was a total team effort*. A few thoughts on the game:
And so the Caps return home to face the one team in the Conference that is ahead of them in the standings on Saturday, and they do so with a big road win over a secondary rival rather than riding a four-game losing streak, and that difference is night and day.
* “Total team effort” does not apply to Michael Nylander or Eric Fehr.