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This time, Caps-Pens has different buzz

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- Not so long ago, this game would have been about titillation. This season's second of four meetings between the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins scheduled for Wednesday at Mellon Arena would have been underscored by Alexander Semin's comments earlier this season questioning what all the buzz was about surrounding Sidney Crosby. And there would have been the simmering animosity between Crosby's teammate Evgeni Malkin and Washington star Alex Ovechkin, a healthy dislike ...

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