Caps Feast on Shorthanded Pens, Rookies Steal Show

The Capitals pounce on a Penguins squad reeling from a slew of injuries that has Sid Crosby and key vets watching from the press box. Washington's young guns light up the scoresheet in ways that have Ovechkin grinning from the bench, signaling a changing of the guard in D.C. With the regular season winding down, this rout exposes Pittsburgh's vulnerabilities just as playoff positioning tightens across the East.