"It's the way it's been for a long time. You throw a couple of playoff series in back-to-back years, that's what you're going to get. A lot of guys are familiar with that regardless of the changeover [in personnel]. They're intense games, emotional games, but those are the ones you want to play in." -- Penguins center Sidney Crosby on rivalry with Washington
"You hate the guys that bumped you out, and all the credit to the Penguins. They've been the standard for the last two seasons and we've had to try to get by them and we have not."-- Capitals coach Barry Trotz
