It took six games, but the Washington Capitals dispatched the Philadelphia Flyers from the playoffs on Sunday in a 1-0 victory, setting up a meeting with the Pittsburgh Penguins in Round Two that has a pretty good chance of going the distance.
Though the Flyers stole two games in this series largely on the back of some incredibly hot goaltending, it is debatable whether or not this series was ever truly in doubt. Sure, fans who have seen the Washington Capitals fail to get the job done in the playoffs year after year were in sheer panic mode, but the team asserted repeatedly that those failures were in the past.