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Penguins-Capitals series pits Fehr against his former team

Penguins forward Eric Fehr said he didn’t have a rooting interest in Game 6 Sunday of the Washington-Philadelphia series.

He wasn’t hoping the Capitals would win, just to set up a semifinal meeting between his current team and the one for which he labored for parts of nine seasons.

Nor was he pulling for the Flyers to extend that series to a seventh game, simply to reduce the chances that he would end up in a no-quarters best-of-seven against some close friends.

“I’m just happy to be moving on,” Fehr said.

The Penguins made sure they’ll be doing that by eliminating the New York Rangers, 6-3, Saturday in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.