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Monday, April 21

Hello Game Seven!

The Caps are coming home to Verizon Center after winning, 4-2, in Philadelphia tonight over the Flyers. The Caps have won the last two over Philly and tied the series at three.

True to their comeback nature this season, the Flyers scored the first two goals of the evening before the Caps posted the next four tallies.

The turning point came at the midway point of the second period. In the one of the prettiest passing plays you'll ever see, Nicklas Backstrom scored on a tic-tac-toe play with Brooks Laich and Alex Semin to put the Caps within a one-goal deficit. The Caps majorly turned up the pressure after that as the Flyers began to succumb.

Then, nine minutes later, John Erskine's shot from the point produced a juicy rebound in front of the net for Semin, who kept the puck alive and put it top shelf past a prone Martin Biron to tie the game.

The third period belonged to the Great Eight. First, after the Flyers were threatening, Viktor Kozlov made a beautiful pass to spring Alex Ovechkin on a breakaway. A bunch of moves later, the Caps had their first lead of the night, 3-2.

Then, the penalty monger Caps started to show their ugly heads and the Flyers had a 50-second, two-man advantage. Luckily for the red, white and blue, the Caps killed it off and then got a power play of their own.

And that's when Ovie iced the game. Laich made a great cross-ice pass to Ovechkin, who unleashed a hallitzer past a hopeless Biron to provide the final margin.

The Caps are 1-4 all-time in a seventh game and 1-3 all-time at home. That one win, of course, came on April 16, 1988 when Dale Hunter scored in overtime to propel the Caps to a 5-4 victory over, you guessed it, the Flyers.

Will history repeat itself tomorrow night? Tune in and find out! And don't forget to rock the red!

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