Sports: NHL Hockey playoffs: Washington Caps 3 vs Boston Bruins 4

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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Sports: Hockey NorthAmerica: Philly's Flyers set a new record in great game

Of all places, the meritorious deeds of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team have been sung on the venerated full-scroll blogpage of The Volokh Conspiracy, by Jonathan H. Adler (May14,2k10).

A Historic Victory

Tonight the Philadelphia Flyers overcame a 3–0 deficit to win the seventh game of their playoff series with the Boston Bruins – a series in which they had trailed 3–0. In the process they became only the third NHL team to win a seven-game series after losing the first three games, and the first such team in 35 years. Now the seventh-seeded Flyers will face the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference finals — and that has to be a historic match-up as well. Go Flyers!

[Note: I went back and forth over “a historic” and “an historic,” eventually settling on the former.]

While I definitely root for the Flyers against the Bruins, when the game between the Canadiens vs Flyers comes up in our Eastern Conference finals of the National Hockey League (it's really binational, of course), I  root for the outstanding Canadian team this season.  Go Montreal! Go Canadiens!

I grew up in Philly, I visited and performed my poems in Montreal, and I've never even been to Boston (tho I watch Boston Legal and Crossing Jordan - about the tuff lady detective who does autopsies in the morgue and is loved unrequitedly by police officer Woody ... such is love in the morgue).