Sunday, April 18, 2010  Aftermath: Broken Hearts  Oh, this
hurts. They had it in their hands. Twice. They had it. We can
talk about the atrocious reffing or the Caps' blatant
interference on Halak, but they had it and they blew it. I won't
talk about the goaltending, even though Jaro should have had the
fifth goal, because a team wins as a team and it loses as a team
and our team blew it last night.  While the conspiracy theories
rage and the hand-wringing and tooth-grinding escalate, the fact
is the game is in the books. There's no going back now, and
there's another one tomorrow night. The question I have now is
how will the team approach it?  One of two things will happen.
In the best case, the team will be able to dismiss this
heartbreak and reset mentally to dealing with a five-game
series. They'll look at the things they did right, like the way
they shut down the best offensive team in the league for five
periods and an overtime. They'll focus on the way both of the
top two lines have found their scorin