For the tenth time overall (and third in the Sidney Crosby / Alex Ovechkin era) the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals will lock horns in the NHL playoffs. History of course has smiled brightly on the Pens, but do you really think as a forechecker is barreling down on Olli Maatta that he's going to be comforted to know that Washington blew a 3-1 series lead in 1991 a few years before he was born?
Yeah, probably not. In the big picture it's fun for us fans (well, us Penguins fans) to remember Petr Nedved's 4OT goal or Martin Straka picking Sergei Gonchar's pocket in Game 7 or, well, pretty much any memory but it doesn't really mean much for the 2017 playoff series.