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- NHL suspends Brashear 6 games for 2 incidents
- Washington Capitals forward Donald Brashear was suspended six games on Monday for two separate incidents, one prior to and the other during Sunday's 5-3 win over the New Rangers in Game 6 of their first-round NHL playoff series. more »
- Capitals force Game 7
- In front of a hostile crowd at Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon, the Washington Capitals outplayed the New York Rangers in every department as they won Game 6 by a 5-3 score to send the series to a seventh and deciding game. more »
- Capitals' Brashear knocks Betts out of series
- A broken orbital bone will keep centre Blair Betts out of the New York Rangers lineup Tuesday night when their first-round playoff series is decided at Washington. more »
- Rangers accuse Capitals of lax security in Tortorella incident
- The New York Rangers have called on the NHL to impose sanctions on the Washington Capitals for what they believe was a lack of adequate security behind their team's bench on Friday night. more »
- Tortorella suspended 1 game for dispute with fan
- The NHL has suspended New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella for one game after a dispute involving a fan Friday night in Washington. more »
- Tortorella expects to be behind bench in Game 6
- Rangers coach John Tortorella expects to be behind the bench for Game 6 of the first-round series against Washington, but declined to talk further about a water bottle-throwing incident that could land him in trouble with the NHL. more »
- Ovechkin, Bradley keep Caps alive
- Fourth-liner Matt Bradley scored the first two playoff goals of his career and NHL goals champion Alex Ovechkin added a highlight-reel effort of his own as the Washington Capitals avoided elimination with a 4-0 thumping of the visiting New York Rangers on Friday night. more »
- Rangers' Lundqvist turns away Capitals
- Two days after watching Washington goaltender Simeon Varlamov completely baffled Ranger shooters, Henrik Lundqvist returned the favour to lift New York to a 2-1 victory Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. more »
- Top line leads Capitals to Game 3 victory
- The Washington Capitals are halfway there, having defeated the hometown New York Rangers 4-0 on Monday in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final matchup, cutting the Ranger lead in the series to 2-1. more »
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Washington Capitals
| Player Stats | |||||||||
| Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | PP | GWG | |
| Alexander Ovechkin | L | 14 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| Nicklas Backstrom | C | 14 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Alexander Semin | L | 14 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -1 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| Mike Green | D | 14 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -5 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| Sergei Fedorov | C | 14 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Goalies Stats | |||||||||
| GP | W | L | GA | SV% | GAA | ||||
| Jose Theodore | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.818 | 3.71 | |||
| Brent Johnson | |||||||||
| Daren Machesney | |||||||||
| Simeon Varlamov | 13 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 0.918 | 2.53 | |||
| Michal Neuvirth | |||||||||
| Brett Leonhardt | |||||||||
New York Rangers
| Player Stats | |||||||||
| Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | PP | GWG | |
| Scott Gomez | C | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Brandon Dubinsky | C | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| Markus Naslund | L | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Nik Antropov | C | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Wade Redden | D | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goalies Stats | |||||||||
| GP | W | L | GA | SV% | GAA | ||||
| Stephen Valiquette | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 0.00 | |||
| Henrik Lundqvist | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 0.908 | 3.00 | |||
Team Analysis
Washington Capitals
50-24-8 | 108 Points | 2nd in East
Key Numbers
GF:272 GA:245 PP:25.2% PK:80.6%
The Capitals have three of the top 20 scorers in the NHL, including the brilliant Alexander Ovechkin. But they also have Alexander Semin, Nicklas Backstrom and high-scoring defenceman Mike Green. That is a ton of firepower. The power play ranked second overall. The key for the Capitals is to be able to neutralize not one big line, but two, and for Ovechkin to become a goal-scoring machine again
New York Rangers
43-30-9 | 95 Points | 7th in East
Key Numbers
GF:210 GA:218 PP:13.9% PK:87.8%
They have Henrik Lundqvist in goal, who is all-world and can steal a series. They are also very good defensively as a team, which they will need to be against the explosive Capitals. Their penalty killing ranked first in the NHL and will have to remain at that level against the Caps, who had the second-best power play.
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