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#20 Backstrom to Ovi PPG Game 5 Stanley Cup

Spoiler alert you might see a couple on this list from June 7, 2018. This is one of them. Nobody scored in the first period. At 6:24 Jakub Vrana broke the ice on a breakaway goal. Nate Schmidt would tie it at 9:40

At 10:14 the other magic moment Caps fans dreamed for happened: Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Ovechkin connecting in a Stanley Cup clinching game. It had to happen. It came on the power play.

It came on a Backstrom feed that was crisp right outside of Ovi’s office and the great eight sniped it in. After the game the dynamic duo hoisted the Cup together, a moment that made me cry.

“It’s a lot heavier than you think,” Backstrom told NHL.com. “It was great when (Alex) gave it to me there. We’ve been dreaming about this since we were kids. It’s just a great feeling.”

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