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Alex Ovechkin couldn't hold back in the afterglow of a cathartic victory Monday night.

The Washington Capitals superstar dropped an F-bomb when asked what was going through his mind when he dished off to Evgeny Kuznetsov before his teammate potted the winner in overtime to eliminate the Pittsburgh Penguins and send the Capitals to the Eastern Conference Final.

Neither Ovechkin nor Kuznetsov are strangers to a little postgame profanity.

Ovi summed up his failure to score his 50th goal of the campaign in the regular-season finale last month by laughing and telling reporters that "shit happens," and he had the same response when asked about the Capitals' Game 1 loss to the Penguins last year.

Kuznetsov also playfully called teammate Nathan Walker "that little motherfucker" after Monday's series-clinching win, and when Ovechkin notched the 600th goal of his career in March, his Russian countryman famously quipped, "Holy fuck, that's a lot of goals."

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