Our friends at Versus gave us a wonderful hockey game Tuesday night. Washington’s action-packed 5-4 overtime victory over Anaheim was fun to watch.As a bonus, we got some more drama from the Capitals: Coach Bruce Boudreau benched Alexander Ovechkin at the end of regulation play as his team was trying to tie the game.That got Alex’s attention. He got busy in overtime and contributed to the game-winning goal.Afterward, Boudreau explained why he sent out mucking forwards Jason Chimera, Brooks Laich and Joel Ward along with Nicklas Backstrom to play six-on-five with goaltender Tomas Vokoun pulled in the final minute.“I thought other guys were better than him and I thought there was just a chance that other guys might score the goal,” Boudreau told reporters. “I’ve got to put out the guys that I think are going to score the goal and 99 percent of the time Alex is the guy I think is going to score the goal. “I just didn’t think Alex was going to score the goal at that time tonight. You go...
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