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Kovacevic: Now this, my friends, is why Evgeni Malkin stayed home

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It might be the steal. Or it might be the stride. Or the snipe. Or even the situation.

Or heck, it might've just been the celebration.

Here, absorb the whole sequence, the whole scene, complete with soul-rattling sound from the ESPN national broadcast:

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Spectacular. All of it.

Every split-second of Evgeni Malkin's electric winner with 1:20 left for the Penguins' final push past the Capitals, 4-3, Saturday night before 18,456 dropped jaws inside PPG Paints Arena made for a leap-from-the-seat finish worthy of Soixante-Six himself, and that's a reference I'll scarcely cite.