What a surprise -- if you're a Caps partisan the hit on Crosby was tough but fine, if you're a Pens partisan it was a cheap shot by a team unable to win otherwise (and even then, needed a power play in overtime). Of course the good old fans tend to resent the game's most talented players as spoiled brats, Crosby much as they did Mario Lemieux decades ago, the average goon much more easy for them to identify with.
Whatever, there is no doubt that the series just changed and that a Capitals win will be tainted. I was pulling for them. Not anymore.