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Even in defeat, Capitals should remember how far they've come

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WASHINGTON -- This is hardly the place for perspective. In a dressing room so quiet that all you could hear were the sounds of portable fans and the murmurs of the brokenhearted, it's hard to see the whole picture, where a team was and how far it came. No, for the Washington Capitals, a team that charged from last overall at Thanksgiving to the Southeast Division title, that came back from a 3-1 series deficit to force a seventh game against the Philadelphia Flyers, all that mattered was Joffr ...

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