I was going to take the night off, but some games just demand an audience.
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If you’re a Caps fan, the postgame radio callers are surely going to be talking about the big boys: a poor Alex Ovechkin dummy gave up the Jason Spezza breakaway, while a Braden Holtby rim was intercepted by Tyler Pitlick and put past the bedeviled goalie. On the positive side, Nicklas Backstrom and Evgeny Kuznetsov both put world-class shots past the shoulder of Ben Bishop, who wasn’t terribly out of position on either one, but found himself digging the puck out of his cage nonetheless.