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Green, Semin key power play attack to help Caps edge Thrashers

Associated Press

Thursday, February 26, 2009

WASHINGTON -- After watching Washington's Mike Green, Alexander Semin and, yes, Alex Ovechkin run their power play to great effect, Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk was asked whether perhaps his team made too many trips to the penalty box Thursday night. Kovalchuk's reply began, appropriately enough, with a loud, long sigh. "Yeah," he said, "especially against that team, we can't take that many penalties." Semin scored one of Washington's three power-play goals and assisted on both of the others, inc ...

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