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Penguins overcome four-goal deficit to defeat Capitals
2006-12-11
The highly anticipated match-up between Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin lived up to expectations when the Pittsburgh Penguins edged the Washington Capitals 5-4 in a shootout on Monday. Pittsburgh overcame a four-goal deficit to send the game into overtime. Evgeni Malkin scored to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead in the shootout and netminder Marc-Andre Fleury denied the Capitals' Chris Clark to seal his side's victory. The Capitals' Ovechkin, last season's NHL Rookie of the Year, had two assists, while Pittsburgh's Crosby, the East's leading vote-getter in the upcoming All-Star game, had a goal and an assist in the battle between the NHL's brightest young talents. Ovechkin scored in the shootout but Crosby was stopped by Washington netminder Olaf Kolzig. A shot from just outside the crease by a sprawling Malkin evaded Kolzig and lifted Pittsburgh into a 4-4 tie three minutes into the final period.
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