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Originally Posted by mickz
The biggest difference between Ovechkin/Capitals and Crosby/Malkin/Penguins is depth. The Capitals rely solely on their stars and when those guys don't produce, no one else steps up. The Penguins always have depth players willing to pick up the slack especially during the times Malkin and Crosby are out of the lineup. Vokoun replacing Fleury in this year's playoffs is another good example of that. I'm not sure the tandem of Holtby/Neuvirth can get a similar result.
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Penguins Roll 4 lines deep, Caps have 1.5 lines. They make the playoffs because they are in a weak division, but they dont have a balanced team.
I followed the rangers series and to be honest, Caps got screwed on Game 6, when Rangers had a 5-0 PP advantage, I thought there were a few penalties that rangers should have gotten called on, but that game I think killed the Caps momentum, Caps played a better game imo but it's hard to win when the other team has a 5-0 penalty advantage in a game. Caps were #1 on the PP in the league and weren't given a single PP, the result was rangers winning game 6 by a score of 1-0, and then going on to destroy the Caps in Game 7.
That's the other knock on Ovi, he doesn't go on the Penalty Kill, and them killing penalties for most of the game and not being on the Power Play - where Ovi is a beast, and you have caps going out in the 1st round again.