Rock The Hawk Works, Green 2 Goals, Ovechkin Game WInner

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Mike Green scored 2 goals on the power of his and Capital fans' mohawks to tie the game up in third period to allow Alexander Ovechkin to score the winning goal over the Flyers in the first game of their playoff series. Green scored at the 1:50 and 6:26 mark in the third after Philly's Daniel Briere scored 2 and Vaclav Prospal added one of his own to make during the Second period.

Ovechkin on a strong forecheck on a Flyer's break-out was able to get Lasse Kukkonen to cough up the puck in ront of Martin Biron to get the eventual game winner. This was Ovechkin's first career NHL Playoff game and goal and added an assist on a Green goal.

Cristobal Huet had 18 saves in the win.

This is the first trip to the postseason for the Caps since the 2002-2003 season in which they lost the opening round to the Lightning 2-4.

The Capitals play Sunday at 2pm and the game will be aired on NBC.

Boxscore can be found here - http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=280411023