January 17, 2006
Alexander The Great!
Why do I keep pumping Alex Ovechkin for Rookie of the Year?
Watch and learn (Quicktime). There's simply nobody better.
And I can't wait for Alex to get a chance to knock Sidney Crosby into next week, just like he did here to Colin White back in November.
For those of you in and around D.C., good seats are still available.
UPDATE: Reader Kris Herrell writes:
If Ovechkin doesn't win goal of the year and Crosby does, I may stop being a hockey fan. I didn't see the game last night but did watch the goal highlights....he actually meant to shoot that...
Right he did. Alex Ovechkin: Best professional athlete in Washington, D.C. (cribbing from John Buccigross, link later) -- and by a country mile.
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The thing I love is the expression on the faces of the rest of the players on the ice. Cujo didn't even really attempt to stop what Ovechkin did because that's just not something that has been done. Talk about not giving up on a play.
On another note, I had to chuckle at this post's title. Mogilny has been gone, what, a week — and already he's be usurped!
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at January 17, 2006 06:09 PM
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at January 17, 2006 07:19 PM
I saw him referred to somewhere as "The Eight One," and local TV guy Joe Benanati calls him "Alexander the Eight" in other usurping plays on words.
And not to nitpick, but it was Boucher, not CuJo that surrended the goal (though they probably could have stood in net shoulder-to-shoulder and not stopped Alex on that shot).
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at January 17, 2006 07:19 PM
My bad on the correction - seems you caught it a hair before I posted.
Posted by:
at January 17, 2006 07:21 PM
I did get to watch the game live (on Center Ice), and I'm glad I made time on MLK Day for it.
It was jaw-dropping, and very much a Lemieux-like moment. If anyone still harbored any doubts about Ovechkin being the next larger-than-life star in this sport, this should dispell them.
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at January 17, 2006 11:16 PM
Some weeks back I made a comment about how Ovechkin reminds me of Pavel Bure.
I take it back.
Even Pavel Bure couldn't do this. He had the talent, but not the determination to keep going to the net when put on his back.
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at January 21, 2006 02:01 AM
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