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First-period report: Another slow, sloppy start from Capitals

By Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

From Scott Burnside: WASHINGTON -- Wow. Talk about sucking the life out of a building, and maybe a team, all in eight seconds. One of the themes of this terrific series has been the inability of either the Capitals or Penguins to create any separation between themselves and their opponents. Remember Game 6 when the Penguins dominated the first period but were only up 1-0? Well, the first period of Game 7 had much of the same feel with one major exception, the Pens struck twice in an eight-secon ...

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