Winter Classic 2011 - Washington Capitals crush Pittsburgh Penguins / 3-1

The 2011 NHL Winter Classic (known via corporate sponsorship as the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic) was the fourth edition of the annual outdoor ice hockey game held by the National Hockey League (NHL) as a regular season game. The Pittsburgh Penguins hosted the Washington Capitals at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on January 1, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. US ET,[1] having originally been scheduled for 1:00 p.m.[2] The game was telecast on NBC in the USA, CBC (English) and RDS (French) in Canada. Pittsburgh native Jackie Evancho performed the Star Spangled Banner and Pittsburgh sports legends Mario Lemieux, Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis presided over the ceremonial dropping of the puck, and during the second intermission Harris and Bettis hosted a fan event at the outside rink.[3]
The 2011 Winter Classic was the second time the Penguins participated in an outdoor NHL game. The Penguins visited the Buffalo Sabres for the inaugural Winter Classic in 2008.[4] Most notably, the Classic pitted two recent number-one draft picks against each other: Penguins center Sidney Crosby (2005) and Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin (2004); both players entered the league in the same year, 2005, due to the 2004--05 NHL lockout and have helped fuel the fire in a significant rivalry between the two teams that had been growing since the early 1990s.

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[BaldingJustice]

Your team is never going to win the cup if your coach calls the winter classic the most important win as a team.

[nachomanin2007]

@BaldingJustice you didn't have to dislike my video tho

[AmberWaves444]

lol, you're obviously i am guessing a Capitals fan. I say this because I wouldn't call a 3-1 win, crushing!!!

[nachomanin2007]

@AmberWaves444 its a big win over the penguins lol

[MegaBlitz25]

@DRS5193 lol you gotta point there. there was quite a bit of red

[MegaBlitz25]

@5055t actually sid sets up his team for goals and can score them, its a little thing in hokcye called passing, idk if ovi knows about it.

[DRS5193]

@MegaBlitz25 More Pittsburgh fans doesn't mean there aren't a large amount of Caps fans there ;)

[MegaBlitz25]

@DRS5193 68,111 seats , about 1-2 caps fans, pretty devoted pens fan base to me!

[EMalkin71luver]

the Penguins are still better then the caps :)

[geez0man]

@DRS5193 lol caps season tix holders section..... the game was sold out with pens fans stupid.

[DRS5193]

Pause it right at 2:32. That's some serious red in Pittsburgh. You guys sure you have a devoted fan base?

[5055t]

Haha! I like how u say ask ovi how ot feels to get the same amount of goals when crosby played half.. That means nothing OVI had 65 goals B4. Ask crobsy how it feels to not get 65. And if u say he won a cup and a gold metal doesnt mean hes better. It means hes a better leader or he was on a better team.

[punknsmasher14]

@mrsidneycrosbylvr87 typical penguins fan... comes to videos like this to talk shit... quit sucking crosby's dick and learn something about hockey

[44foggell]

@mrsidneycrosbylvr87 ask you to read that comment again?