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Ovie, Caps are NHL's best young team

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Monday, May 4, 2009

WASHINGTON -- They chanted, "M-V-P," and hurled their hats onto the ice. And when it was over, when Alex Ovechkin's hat trick had trumped Sidney Crosby's hat trick in a monumental clash of NHL titans, it was hard not to believe we had witnessed a kind of passing of the torch. Not the torch that defines who the greater player is -- that debate might ever rage -- but rather the torch that defines which is the greater team in this moment. In the wake of this terrific, hard-fought 4-3 Washington C ...

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