Capitals fans, burned before, have been left scarred

by Mike Wise, WaPo Sports columnist
Read him here WaPo (Apr23,2k12)

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Here’s Washington Capitals' lineup for Game 6:

Ovechkin-Laich-Brouwer
Johansson-Backstrom-Semin
Hendricks-Beagle-Chimera
Knuble-Aucoin-Ward

Defense
Alzner-Carlson
Hamrlik-Green
Erskine-Wideman

Goal
Holtby
Neuvirth

Boston Bruin's roster but last-minute changes for Monday's game here.

Wednesday's next game for the Caps and the Bruins in the playoffs, coming up.

WED APR 25, 2012	CAPITALS	BRUINS	7:30 PM	CBC, RDS, NBCSN, NESN(HD)	TICKETS

Posted Apr22,2k12

Game 6: Seguin scores in overtime

to lift Bruins over Caps, 4-3, force decisive Game 7

Monday's Loss to the Bruins, as it happened

by Lindsay Applebaum (Apr|22,2k12)

Tyler Seguin ends it in OT — good timing for his first goal of these playoffs — to give the Bruins a 4-3 victory, and we head back to Boston for the decisive Game 7 on Wednesday.

See Seguin’s game-winning goal after the jump.

Overtime: Caps win the faceoff, overtime is underway.

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Int: Neil: Final scoring chances for regulation were 20-14 in Washington’s favor. Ovechkin leads team with five, including the goal that sent it to OT.

Marcus Johansson has been on the ice for 12 of Caps 20 chances-for.

(Toni L. Sandys - THE WASHINGTON POST)End regulation: We head now to the third overtime game of the series. They keep it interesting.

15:08 3rd: Backstrom wins the faceoff and Alex Ovechkin with a slapshot that beats Thomas five-hole to tie it up at 3. Now fans are chanting “THO-MAS.” I think. May have lost hearing. Um, it’s loud.

11:57 3rd: After Seguin strips Semin of the puck, Ference scores on a rebound, Bruins take a 3-2 lead — their third of the game.

8:50 3rd: Pouliot in the box for roughing.

7:04 3rd: Hey look, it’s John Wall on the Jumbotron. (I didn’t get a pic. But pretend you’re looking.)

2:01 3rd: Caps’ PKers hold up. Back to even strength in a huge-as-huge-gets third period.

Still 2nd int: Via NHL Players as Kids, here’s a pic of Alexander Semin on some kind of rowing machine as a lad in Russia. Why not?

Also, via @wyshynski, here’s that blown dive/interference call, depending on whose side you’re on:

2nd int: Neil: Chances were 7-4 Caps. Boston had no chances through the first 11 minutes of the second but managed to get three in the last half of period. Hendricks had two chances that period and is now tied for team lead with Backstrom for the game.

End 2nd: Caps will have to come back and kill off 1:23 of a 4-on-3 in the third. Pouliot (slash) and Brouwer (roughing) in the box for matching minors and Hendricks off for tripping.

19:18 2nd: Backstrom sends a perfectly-placed pass to Chimera, who taps it in to tie the game at 2 — after taking down Marchand on his way to the net. Lots of shoving after the goal. Bruins think that should have been a penalty, and maybe it should have been — he was bleeding after the play. Marchand, though, has taken quite a few dives this series.

(Toni L. Sandys - THE WASHINGTON POST)

2:52 p.m.:

Also, in case you missed it (I know you didn’t), the Flyers just wrapped up their series with Pittsburgh with a 5-1 victory in Game 6. A rather stunning collapse for the team that many predicted to win the Cup.

Philly is now the first team from the East through to the next round — thanks in large part to some woeful goaltending by Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury. Should be interesting to see how the Flyers fare in the next round, because they’ve got some goalie issues of their own with $51 million man Ilya Bryzgalov (4.55 GAA, .848 save percentage).