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Capitals goalie Braden Holtby hard to crack

By Kevin Paul Dupont

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 13, 2012

We still don’t know a lot about Braden Holtby, but Bruins fans now know enough to worry. For more than 60 minutes Thursday night, Washington’s rookie netminder, previously known as merely the last resort on the Capitals’ depth chart, came within a glove save of handing the Bruins a Game 1 upset in this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

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