Rangers Defense Trumps Caps Offense

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As quite often happens this time of year, a team with a good defense and a stellar goaltender negates a great offensive team and moves on in the playoffs while the team with loads of offensive talent takes an early summer vacation. While the series between the Rangers and the Capitals isn't quite over yet, it's hard to foresee the Capitals beating the Rangers and Lundqvist three times in a row with the way the Rangers netminder is playing. Other than Alexander Semin, the Rangers celebrated goaltender has completely shutdown the Capitals scoring machine giving up only one goal to Alexander Ovechkin and none to Mike Green. While the series has revealed that the Capitals might have that type of goaltender in the future with Simeon Varlamov, unfortunately, the Capitals for all intents and purposes lost this series in the first two games at home, and unless they can now do the unlikely, and win out against the Rangers, this season will be remembered not for the great season and winning the division crown, but another early exit in the playoffs.

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