Super Puck!

This coming Sunday, NBC will show one of the biggest rivalry games in the country. Lakers-Cavs? No. Ravens-Steelers? No. The Game of the Week features Ovie-Crosby? You got it. For those not familiar with the National Hockey League, the Washington Capitals host the Pittsburgh Penguins at noon. It promises to be a classic. The two franchises have met a number of times in the playoffs and the Pens ousted the young Caps a year ago in an epic seven-game series. The two faces of the NHL - Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin - highlight the matchup. The two had a little dust-up in front of the Caps bench last year about this time, making the rivalry a little more heated. Fans of each team hate the other. Pittsburgh fans boo Ovechkin every time he touches the puck. Caps fans leave pictures of Crosby in the men's urinals throughout the Verizon Center. It gets intense. The Caps are in the midst of a 13-game winning streak, lead the league in points, and are scoring goals in bunches. Ovechkin leads the team with 39 goals but nine of his teammates have at least 10 goals this year, including Alexander Semin's 26 and Niklas Backstrom's 25. Pittsburgh has Crosby's 33 goals as well as Evgeni Malkin's 19. The last time they met, the Caps' Tomas Fleischmann and Backstrom each scored in less than a minute to break a tie in the third period on their way to a 6-3 win. But stats mean nothing going into this game. It'll be a high-speed, no-holds barred, hard-hitting contest between two teams that do NOT like one another. Even if you're not a hockey fan, check out the Capitals-Penguins on Super Bowl Sunday on NBC.