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Caps fans show sense of humor before Game 7

By Pierre LeBrun

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Well, the fans here have a sense of humor. A half-dozen Caps fans sitting behind the Rangers bench Tuesday night were wearing red rain ponchos. Nice. It was a play on the Game 5 incident, of course, where New York coach John Tortorella threw a water bottle at a fan and got suspended one game for it by the NHL. As for the lineups tonight, Russian rookie call-up Artem Anisimov is indeed in the lineup for the injured Blair Betts. Anisimov had 37 goals in the AHL this season. On the ...

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