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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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 Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: Check out Ovechkin's Habkilling Goal |
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One of the best goals I've seen this year, no doubt.
You can see it on any number of websites I'd think but here's the link to today's espn...
http://espn.go.com/nhl/
Not bad picture quality and it shows you the highlights from the rest of the game as well.
That kid is an amazing player...I wish he was with a team I liked! |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Ovechkin is so good they should call him "cheat code." Like when you made up players with 99 stats. Speed, power, finesse and heart. He's got it all. He leads the league in goals, second in points, leads in 3rd period goals and game winning goals.
The Washington Capitals have been my favourite team for around 31 years and they have never had a player of his caliber before. The guy is unreal.
I wouldn't describe it as a "Hab-killing goal" though. It only tied up the game 10 minutes into the first. Washington also played like crap but still managed to squeak one out in the Gary Bettman Shootout. *Ugh*
When Washington learns how to Penalty Kill (they gave up 3 PP goals today) they will be a serious contender for the Stanley Cup. As it is, they have a sublime offense but a suspect defense and decent goaltending.
With Ovechkin, Backstrom, Semin, Green, Alzner, Varlamov and Carlson, the future looks very bright in DC. 
Here's the Goal in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQwsvFWaXk&fmt=22 |
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Chamchiman
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
The Washington Capitals have been my favourite team for around 31 years and they have never had a player of his caliber before. The guy is unreal.
With Ovechkin, Backstrom, Semin, Green, Alzner, Varlamov and Carlson, the future looks very bright in DC.
Here's the Goal in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQwsvFWaXk&fmt=22 |
Thanks for the HD link.
You're from Vancouver aren't you? I suppose I can understand why someone from Vancouver might not support the Canucks. Maybe they're too old. Maybe the players spit too much when they're on the bench. Is that it GG?  But for the life of me I can NOT understand why someone from Vancouver would be a Washington fan. I don't think I even saw a Caps game on TV until I was a teenager.
That said, I can certainly understand why people like watching the Capitals these days. Ovechkin is electric, and the team's future is indeed very bright. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Chamchiman wrote: |
| for the life of me I can NOT understand why someone from Vancouver would be a Washington fan. |
I am from Vancouver Island and have been a HUGE Washington Capitals fan since the early 80's when my Habs' Langway and Jarvis were traded there. Yeah, the Canucks, Oilers, North Stars then later Sharks were my fav teams because they were out west, and I became a Sabres fan when Canuck Peca was traded there... but there are plenty of eastern teams I have NOT liked, in fact, treated like heaps of dung (Toronto, Detroit, all New York teams, both Pennsylvania teams...ugh). I watched Boston only because of Raymond Bourque, who as a rookie we all knew was something special. My first fav hockey hero was Dryden so Montreal was #1 in the east for me, had no number two until Washington.
I saw the physical, hard working hard hitting Caps and became hooked! Sure I only saw them play when they took on western teams or Toronto, Quebec, Montreal (pre cable tv) but I also got to see them in the playoffs and follow them in the hockey digests and collect their hockey cards.
I hated the Islanders dynasty for defeating my Habs, Oilers and Canucks. Then along comes the Caps who also lose to the Isles but give them a run for their money, outhustling and outhitting them. I liked it. Mikey likes it!
Then later in the 80's along came cable tv, and Dale Hunter went from the Nordiques to Capitals, and I was big time hooked!
Watching the Caps lose a series to the Penguins when up 3-1 in games was hard enough, but to watch it happen a second time was torture, and blowing a 2-0 series lead to the Penguins a third time also hurt like the bugger.
Needless to say... I am absolutely tickled with the Ovechkin era Capitals. I slowed down being a North Stars fan when they became the Stars and gave up entirely when Nieuwendyk retired, have only half-followed the Habs since Carbonneau retired, and swore off the Canucks in anger during the Keenan and Crawford eras until Linden was traded back, but I always, always was a Capitals fan, along with the Oilers and the Sharks from day one.
Nothing odd about that.
What IS odd is how someone can be a Canucks AND Leafs fan.... that I've never figured out... especially if from western Canada (those from ontario have an excuse: they didn't know any better during their formative years) and the Maple Leafs have stunk for the 32 years I've been watching hockey. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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For the record: Ovechkin locked up the Hart trophy weeks ago when he scored multiple third period goals that were the difference in games against Pittsburgh and Detroit... and if you missed those two games then I am sad for the hockey fan in you because they were phenomenal, and I'm not just talking about AO's heroics. They were the sort of classic games that should be shown a decade or two from now.
The Habs game in contrast was a pretty sloppy affair. Really a mess. I'm sure both coaches would like it forgotten. |
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Drake Hotel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Ovechkin is incredible! It's a great time for the game with him and the young Penguins making amazing plays consistently. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the HD link.
You're from Vancouver aren't you? I suppose I can understand why someone from Vancouver might not support the Canucks. Maybe they're too old. Maybe the players spit too much when they're on the bench. Is that it GG? Wink But for the life of me I can NOT understand why someone from Vancouver would be a Washington fan. I don't think I even saw a Caps game on TV until I was a teenager.
That said, I can certainly understand why people like watching the Capitals these days. Ovechkin is electric, and the team's future is indeed very bright. |
I was born in Trail, British Columbia, but I lived in the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan for a long time and only recently moved to Vancouver.
I became a Washington fan in the late 70's. Dating myself here. 
I just chose a team and stuck with them. Through good times and bad times. Mostly bad...  |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a good website that has all of Ovechkin's goals and highlights:
http://www.ovechkinfans.com/
If you wanna see game highlights of Capital games, this is an excellent website as well:
http://www.neuroticnerd.com/capitals/
Ovechkin is the best player in the game in my opinion. I can't wait to see them play Sh*ttsburgh at home this week. Should be a real barnburner. Ovechkin always gets jacked up when he is playing his fellow Russians.  |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:07 am Post subject: |
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I really like Sidney Crosby as he is a fellow Maritimer, but Ovechkin is the better player. I usually don't like Russian players because they don't hit, backcheck and go itno the corners.
Ovechkin does all that and more. Ovechkin is the best player in the NHL.
Rod Langway.... What a hockey player! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| I usually don't like Russian players because they don't hit, backcheck and go into the corners. |
Only someone as myopic and prejudiced as Don Cherry should say that!
Watch some of the 1972 summit series to see how untrue that is.
Watch the 1981 Canada Cup to see how true that is.
Soviet coach Tikhonov preached forechecking and backchecking and before him the great Tarasov's coaching methods bred the beginning of Soviet hockey on the bad Bruins Art Ross coaching model of being aggressive and determined to hound puck carriers, and the Broadstreet Bullies in Philly was spawned by its coach Shero building on Tarasov's ideas.
Read up on all-time great Soviet forwards like Starshinov and Krutov to see how untrue that is. In fact, 60's and 70's Russian hockey involved a lot of hard hitting and checking. I could provide countless examples.
As for the NHL, remember Konstantinov and don't tell Selke winner Fedorov he didn't backcheck, nor Yushkevich that he didn't hit. I could go on and on.
The myth of the soft Euro is patently false in terms of Russian and Finnish hockey history. The Swedes and Czechs did ice plenty of less check-happy, less physical teams in international tournaments. But they were not the Soviets.
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| Rod Langway.... What a hockey player! |
Love the guy but this post wouldn't be complete without mentioning he had his *beep* handed to him in Rendez-Vour '87 against the Soviets, Langway admitting afterwards that he and his defensive partner Green made a defensive mistake which led to the Russians digging the pucks out of the boards, pushing past the NHL all-star and power forward Krutov pulling the trigger on a goal in game two that changed the series. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Ovechkin looked great again against the Pengwhines.
One goal, one assist and he roughed up Crysby a little too. Almost a Gordie Howe hat trick.
Caps seven points back of Boston for the Eastern Conference lead with 20 games to go. Should be interesting. |
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