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				<title><![CDATA[Green's OT tally helps Capitals edge Rangers]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Ticker) -- Defenseman Mike Green emerged as a hero 
as the Washington Capitals remained hot.

Green scored the game-winning goal in overtime and added two
assists as the Capitals edged the New York Rangers, 5-4, on
Wednesday.

Joe Motzko scored two goals and Alex Ovechkin and defenseman
Jeff Schultz also tallied for Washington, which improved to
3-0-0 on its current four-game homestand.

The Capitals also raised their record to 6-3-1 under interim
coach Bruce Boudreau, who took the helm when Glen Hanlon was
fired following a 6-14-1 start.

"The effort was great," Boudreau said.  "They never thought at
any point that they were out of it, which is important.  When
you believe that you can come back, then that's half the battle.
The next thing is doing what you're supposed to do and keep
pushing and pushing.  I thought we pushed really good tonight."

The Rangers, who had creeped to within one point of Atlantic
Division-leading New Jersey after shutting out the Devils, 1-0,
last Sunday, have dropped four of five.

"We're lucky we got a point," Rangers coach Tom Renney said.
"We scored two goals and thought it was going to be easy.  This
team just got better and better and came after us.

"I'm not sure if I'm perturbed or disturbed.  We weren't very
smart.  We moved the puck poorly and managed it poorly.  We had
disjointed line changes and had defensemen on ice for too many
minutes because we couldn't get the puck out of our end.  We
weren't very bright tonight."

In overtime, with the puck in the offensive zone, New York's
Brendan Shanahan tripped on the ice as he was just receiving the
puck 40 feet directly in front of the net.

"I just reached back for the puck, and that's just part of the
game sometimes," Shanahan said.  "You get a bad bounce like that
or you step in a bad groove.  Whatever it was, my skate dug in
and I lost my footing."

The loose puck was gathered by Brooks Laich, who led a 2-on-1
rush before quickly passing to Green for a shot that found its
way between the pads of goaltender Henrik Lundqvist at 3:41 for
the game-winner.

"I thought (Shanahan) was going to have some room to walk in
there and tee it up, but he just tripped," Laich said.  "When he
fell down, I just pounced on it.  All of a sudden, the eyes
just light up with a chance, and I drove it down and got a
timing pass across to Green.  He knocked the (water) bottle off
(the top of the net), so we're pretty excited."

Green got excited as soon as he saw Shanahan go down.

"I saw him trip and I just raced up the ice," Green said.  "As
soon as he fell, I took off and Brooksie made a great pass to
me.  I saw the top half of the net, so it was just a matter of
shooting it there.  To get the win was the icing on the cake."

Boudreau was excited by the play of Green, who also had two
assists and spent a team-high 30 minutes, 5 seconds on the ice
in his first career three-point game.

"He's going to be good," Boudreau said.  "I have all the
confidence in the world in him.  He's smart with the puck."

Washington rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the first period when
Motzko scored his first two goals of the season.  The
27-year-old tallied at 15:51 of the opening session before
knotting the contest with 4:13 remaining in the second.

"It's definitely a step in the right direction knowing we can
come back from two goals down," Laich said.

Ovechkin gave the Capitals their first lead at 4:36 of the
third, when he deflected a snap shot from Green past Lundqvist.

Martin Straka netted his second goal of the game at 8:13 to knot
the game at 3-3, but just 78 seconds later Schultz fired from
61 feet out to restore Washington's one-goal edge.

Shanahan sent the game into the extra period when he redirected
a shot from blue-liner Michal Rozsival with 7:17 remaining in
the third past Olaf Kolzig as the netminder had yet to recover
from making a save.

"We kept on having to play catch-up hockey," Shanahan said.
"Unfortunately, we had a bad break to end the game.  We weren't
happy with some of the chances we gave up.   Sometimes we had
full control of the puck in our end and turned the puck over,
and it ended up in our net."

Kolzig managed to stop 19 shots for Washington, which had not
won three straight at home since last January.

Lundqvist made 30 saves for New York, which saw its four-game
winning streak against Washington come to an end.

"They got a couple weird goals - a couple deflections, a
screen," Lundqvist said.  "The last one, I tried to find and it
went right through me."]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:54:45 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Ovechkin, Capitals look for third straight win]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[NY Rangers (16-12-2) at Washington (11-17-2)       7:00 pm EST

WASHINGTON (Ticker) - All of a sudden, a meeting with the
Washington Capitals doesn't look like such an easy win anymore.

Alex Ovechkin tries to lead the Capitals to their third
consecutive victory when they host New York Rangers on
Wednesday.

After going a miserable 3-10-2 over the month of November,
Washington won three of its first four games to start December.
Ovechkin has been a major reason for the turn around, compiling
four goals and nine points over his five-game point streak.

The 20-year-old rookie Niklas Backstrom is also starting to turn
it around, notching two goals and three assists over the past
three contests.  He has three goals and 18 points on the season.

Henrik Lundqvist continued his stellar campaign, making 17 saves
and logging his fifth shutout of the season as the Rangers
ended a three-game losing skid with a 1-0 overtime triumph over
the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.

Lundqvist is 15-11-1 with a 1.79 goals-against average and .925
save percentage this season, anchoring the league's best
defensive team.  New York has yielded an NHL-low 65 goals.

The Rangers are also surrendering a conference-best 26.2 shots
per game.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:35:24 GMT</pubDate>
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