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Emotional postgame lineup for Ovechkin

By Pierre LeBrun

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Nothing but warm embraces as Caps superstar Alex Ovechkin shook hands with Pittsburgh rivals Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Sergei Gonchar. With Gonchar, Ovechkin could clearly be seen re-enacting the knee-on-knee hit and trying to explain something to Gonchar, who missed Games 5 and 6 with a knee injury because of the Game 4 incident. Ovechkin later told reporters he was telling Gonchar he thought he couldn't avoid the hit on that play. "I just tell him I don't want to hit him ...

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