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The Teams Compete
by Paul on 12/12/06 at 06:09 AM ET
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from Scott Burnside of ESPN,
With Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby meeting for the first time this season and with Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins and Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals both defying observers by staying in the playoff hunt, one would have imagined that the lure of such a spectacle would have been strong enough to give the Capitals their first sellout of the season.
Instead, great gaping rows of empty purple Verizon Center seats greeted the two young stars as they conspired to produce a compelling, seesaw tilt that saw the Penguins fall behind 4-0 before stealing a 5-4 shootout victory.
Compelling? My goodness yes, despite the announced crowd of 14,793….
By the end, the buzz in the Verizon Center was electric. As it should be when the game’s elite gather and turn in a performance worthy of the term. Even if there were thousands of empty seats that didn’t bear witness to the event.
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