Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tino heke te riri mo nga tau e rima i muri mai i te tukinga tukinga 2001, i te mea i honoa a Washington me Pittsburgh mo te putanga takaro kotahi anake i tenei wa (I hinga a Washington ki te Tampa Bay Lightning i te 2003 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals). Ko nga raru o nga kapa e rua i te waa auau ka whiwhi i a raatau ki te tuhi i nga taranata teitei. Ko Alexander Semin (13th overall, 2002), Alexander Ovechkin (1st overall, 2004), me Nicklas Backstrom (4th overall, 2006), i tohua e nga Capitals, i te wa ko Ryan Whitney (5th overall, 2002), Marc-Andre Fleury (1st overall, 2003), Evgeni Malkin (2nd overall, 2004), Sidney Crosby (1st overall, 2005), me Jordan Staal (2nd overall,
2006) i hangaia e nga Penguins. I whai wāhi ēnei kaitākaro ki te huri tere i ngā tūponotanga o ō rātou kapa. Ko Crosby me Ovechkin, te kaitakaro tino rongonui i runga i ia kapa, i tutaki tuatahi i te Noema 22, 2005, me Crosby e whiwhi ana i te whaainga me te awhina me Ovechkin e whiwhi ana i te awhina. I wikitoria ngā Penguins i te 5 ki te 4. I noho nga ahuatanga e rua ki o raatau tumanakohanga, i te mea i whakauruhia e raatau te 106 (Ovechkin) me te 103 tohu (Crosby) ki te whakaoti i te tuatoru me te tuaono o nga whakataetae NHL, i runga ake nei. Heoi, i ngaro nga kapa e rua i nga whiringa toa i tera tau. Ko nga whaainga 52 a Ovechkin i whakanohoia ia ki te tuatoru o nga wa katoa mo nga whaainga i eke ki tetahi rookie i roto i te waa noa, i muri i a Teemu Selanne (76) me Mike Bossy (53)