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NHL Cranks Up Hype Machine for Caps-Pens on Sunday

Jayhawk Fan posted 3/7/2008 from sports.aol.com

With the Capitals and the Penguins scheduled to square off in NBC's Game of the Week on Sunday, the NHL has sure done a lot to raise the pre-game hype to a level not often seen for a regular season game. The first indication that we were going to see something like this came in the immediate aftermath of Monday's 10-2 Caps victory over Boston where Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick in the first ...