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When before has a league's best player (you can argue your case, but he's still the best player in the game) not started in an All-Star game?
Wow! "Au Canada" has shown that hockey is still their country's sport.
Everyone else is just sitting in the stands watching.
Ovechkin is comparable to (in other sports); Michael Jordan, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Peyton Manning, etc., and he is not starting in the All-Star game. That's a shame, shame, shame.
If I start a pro hockey team with one pick, I don't even think about it, it's Ovechkin.
I never bought any of his rookie cards, because of my self-prognosed Russian Syndrome (i.e., different from The Vanek Syndrome).
My experience as a hockey fan has shown me one thing in particular about hockey players from Russia. They get worse (at least offensively), not better, or else they have short careers.
My Sabres' Mogilny had 76 goals as a rookie.
Fedorov's RC once outsold Jagr by 3-to-1 (same sets).
As good as he still is, Ilya Kovalchuk's numbers have not improved much from his rookie season, even playing with Marian Hossa. He's still a point-per-game player, and he's a minus-83 for his career.
Who else? Pavel Bure was out of the league a while ago.
Watching Ovechkin play, I cannot imagine that little streak continuing, barring injury of course.
He is really unbelievable. I would definitely pay to go watch him play. I cannot say that about anyone else, except Pitt, and it's the trio of Letang, Crosby, and Malkin that would draw me in.
Alex Ovechkin is not starting in the All-Star game?
Wow!
crazy.
Wow! "Au Canada" has shown that hockey is still their country's sport.
Everyone else is just sitting in the stands watching.
Ovechkin is comparable to (in other sports); Michael Jordan, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Peyton Manning, etc., and he is not starting in the All-Star game. That's a shame, shame, shame.
If I start a pro hockey team with one pick, I don't even think about it, it's Ovechkin.
I never bought any of his rookie cards, because of my self-prognosed Russian Syndrome (i.e., different from The Vanek Syndrome).
My experience as a hockey fan has shown me one thing in particular about hockey players from Russia. They get worse (at least offensively), not better, or else they have short careers.
My Sabres' Mogilny had 76 goals as a rookie.
Fedorov's RC once outsold Jagr by 3-to-1 (same sets).
As good as he still is, Ilya Kovalchuk's numbers have not improved much from his rookie season, even playing with Marian Hossa. He's still a point-per-game player, and he's a minus-83 for his career.
Who else? Pavel Bure was out of the league a while ago.
Watching Ovechkin play, I cannot imagine that little streak continuing, barring injury of course.
He is really unbelievable. I would definitely pay to go watch him play. I cannot say that about anyone else, except Pitt, and it's the trio of Letang, Crosby, and Malkin that would draw me in.
Alex Ovechkin is not starting in the All-Star game?
Wow!
crazy.