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Bleatings From a Caps Nut:
We love it when we're right... Onto the Battle Damage Assessment...THE GOOD:Back from the Oink or something like it, Alexander "Slappy" Semin registers 3 points, scores the game winning goal, is a +3 but isn't one of the three stars of the game. This gives you an idea of what a complete performance the team put forward tonight.Nicklas Backstrom with 4 points and a +3 and A.O. with 2 goals and a +3 too. For those keeping score at home, that's 9 points and +9 combined for the reunited New SOB line. Bruce Boudreau is going to have to think hard before splitting up this line again.Jose "Alvin, Simon," Theodore with a very strong performance tonight. 41 saves and quite a bit of help from the goalposts tonight.While the bashers will only remember the ugly turnover late in the game, Jeff "Sergeant" Schultz had a good tonight as well. He was clearing out the crease and registered another assist tonight finishing with a +1.The Power Play started getting back in sync tonight going 1 f...
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