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So what happened?
Malkin had the puck on his stick. He had several scoring chances earlier in the period, but was being blanketed pretty heavily by the Caps. As he approached the offensive zone, all five Caps were within 20 feet of the blue line, and none were more than halfway into their own zone. Geno unfortunately tried to stick-handle through those players instead of recognizing the situation and dumping the puck. It's a move that you have to live with, because he is sometimes capable of running the gauntlet, but you wish in that circumstance that he'd dump the puck.
You know what happens next - turnover at the blue line, just inside the offensive zone and before you can blink, it's a three-on-one going the other way. Michalek for some reason makes a beeline for the man with the puck (Halpern). Halpern dishes the puck to a wide open Chimera who goes in on a breakaway on Flower. Ouch.
That was the only goal of the night.
The Pens didn't have any...
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