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by Paul on 10/30/09 at 01:15 PM ET
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from Mike Milbury at CBC,
Please don’t wax poetic about Hull and Howe and Shore. Today’s players are bigger, stronger, faster, better conditioned, better coached and with better equipment. The players of the 50s couldn’t keep up. And there’s so many of them that you don’t need to consult the standings to name a bunch of them. Kopitar in LA. Bobby Ryan in Anaheim. Duchene and O’Reilly in Colorado. Toews and Kane in Chicago. Stamkos in Tampa. Kovalchuk in Atlanta. Gaborik in New York. Parise in New Jersey. Crosby and Malkin and Fleury in Pittsburgh. And on and on.
But it is in Washington where the new generation’s poster boy resides. Hey, Alex Semin, Nick Backstrom and Mike Green are all stars in their own right, but the lightning rod is Alex Ovechkin.
The attraction? He is the next Mr. Hockey, the newly-defined Mr. Hockey. The computerized, twittered, facebooked, instantly gratified and accessible Mr. Hockey.
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We had always used ‘cherry-pickers’ in Saskatchewan, then I moved to BC and everyone used ‘seagulls’ and it’s always bothered me.
I can see where you’re coming from, and slightly-somewhat agree (though nothing wrong with powerplay goals or being in the right spot at the right time), but that last sentence was friggin’ ridiculous.
No question he is one of the best goal-scorers ever in hockey.
Posted by Nathan from BC on 10/30/09 at 03:27 PM ET
If you watch the whole play, you will see that he was in the zone and took off once he saw that one of his guys had the puck. It seems that people from Pittsburgh only see what they want to see.
Posted by That from DC on 10/30/09 at 04:29 PM ET
That from DC:
“It seems that people from Pittsburgh only see what they want to see.”
http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/hockey/comments/complaining_about_holmstrom/
See also: High majority of fans of sports teams across North America.
Posted by Nathan from BC on 10/30/09 at 04:52 PM ET
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look, i don’t want to come off as a basher; but… I am watching the highlights from last nights capitals game, and i see OV get another powerplay goal, and then he gets a breakaway goal.
In regards to the breakaway goal. The puck and play is deep in the capitals defensive zone, somehow the puck is on a capitals stick and thrown nearly 60 feet behind the opposing defenders trying to get back. THe camera angle could not even get wide enough to find that OV was that far behind the play. When we were in school and played basketball, we would call people like that cherry pickers.
just saying, you have to wonder if two line pass is implemented if OV is even a star in this league.
Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 10/30/09 at 02:42 PM ET