Round 2, Game 7- Penguins @ Washington Capitals

Well folks, it's all down to this. Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Playoffs is the greatest spectacle in North American sports, save maybe the Super Bowl. The Penguins and Capitals both would have preferred to have won this thing by now, but they haven't, so on they will play on Wednesday night at a very red Verizon Center. Home ice hasn't been a huge deal so far, so don't expect it to be in this game. Momentum? Nope. Shots on goal? Laughable.

Marc-Andre Fleury has to be better. He's facing 11 less shots per game than Simeon Varlamov in this series, but giving up just just about the same amount of goals. Some of those have been soft.

Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin need to outduel Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom. The powerplay needs to click. The penalty kill must be stout.

Sergei Gonchar, out since Game 4 with a knee injury caused by a knee on knee hit by Ovechkin, may or may not return for the game. He practiced on Tuesday, but he is a game-time decision. It wouldn't be a shock if he pulled a Willis Reed and came back to help his team to victory. After all, he did it just last year in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals when he came back from a rib injury during the third overtime to help Petr Sykora net a game winning powerplay goal.

This is the biggest game of the season, and it doesn't get any bigger from here on out.

Penguins-

Kunitz-Crosby-Guerin
Fedotenko-Malkin-Talbot
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Goligoski-Adams-Satan

Orpik-Gonchar
Eaton-Letang
Gill-Scuderi

Fleury

Capitals-

Ovechkin-Backstrom-Kozlov
Fleischmann-Fedorov-Semin
Laich-Steckel-Bradley
Clark-Gordon-Beagle

Morrissonn-Green
Poti-Jurcina
Erskine-Pothier

Varlamov

LET'S GO PENS!