Look, if you've come here seeking me to divine trendings and karma for tonight, leave now. This is Caps-Pens, and if you've signed up for it this spring, understandably wishing-believing that Alexander Ovechkin and Bruce Boudreau possessed fresh, unscarred karma relative to the history of this series, rendering us magically free from past agony, that's understandable and all well and good, but reality is proving something beautifully alternative (painful though it be): really it doesn't matter who wears the respective crests of these respective franchises -- drama and chaos and who-knows-what-the-hell-will-happen-next are the order of this universe.Painful though it be, this is how durable, scar-branding rivalries are forged. From my vantage, it's a real simple formula (not necessarily easily achieved) for the Capitals to regain momentum and control of this series in tonight's game 5: two world-class performers who've been anything but in this serie...
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