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Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever
#7886061 - 01/15/08 09:31 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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And we here in DC get to keep HIM!! YESSS!! Finally for the first time in our team's history the owners figured out that NHL stars STAY if you give them (gasp)... MUUUN-EEEEE! It only took them 30 fucking years to figure it out. And they signed him for 13 FUCKING YEARS. Hell YES! With all the instability in my life at least I know that when my pubes go grey... I'll still be able to go down to the Verizon Center and watch us NOT suck. I can sleep better at night knowing that.
God damn I was so scared he was going to move to Montreal.
The caps have had so many great players in the past who they just LET go because they were too cheap (Sergei Gonchar, Scott Stevens, etc). Perhaps we might actually win the cup in the next 5 years.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7886383 - 01/15/08 10:28 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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He's incredible but Crosby blows him out of the water. That kid's scary good. I reckon Ovechkin will have the upper hand in terms of future playoff beards, though.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: Pat Bateman, VP]
#7886398 - 01/15/08 10:31 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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Ovechkin's a better goal scorer than Crosby, buy Crosby's more well rounded.
Although.. Ovechkin does SUCK as shootouts..
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7888092 - 01/16/08 12:41 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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ovechkin > crosby
crosby has more weapons to work with....ovechkin is an animal...if he isnt already...by the times the olympics roll around, he will be the best player in the world and lead Russia to a gold medal.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: deadHead321]
#7888225 - 01/16/08 01:18 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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Crosby may be able to beat OV in points but only because he racks up the assists. Assists don't win games... GOALS do.
Too bad the caps have been goobered with injuries this year or we might be over .500 by now. Clark's been out most of the season. Semin's FINALLY getting back on track... but Nylander is going to be out the rest of the season as of yesterday. Bummer.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7888346 - 01/16/08 01:55 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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BrAiN said: Assists don't win games... GOALS do.
Come on man, it's six of one half dozen of the other. You can't have assists without a goal on the other end. That's why they're equal in points. If you have more points than someone else, you are directly responsible for more goals.
As for this deal, I don't know what the hell Ovechkin was thinking. Why the fuck would you want to spend pretty much all of your career in Washington??
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7888494 - 01/16/08 02:50 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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How much u think someone else would have paid for him?
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7888563 - 01/16/08 03:06 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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Probably a fuckton. And he could have ended up in a better hockey town.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7888931 - 01/16/08 04:23 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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Bah.... DC's fans are hardcore...
After Ted Leonis FUCKED us after the lockout by trading ALL our good players in a hissy fit (including Bondra and Gonchar).. we fucking DESERVE to finally have a descent player.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7889053 - 01/16/08 04:45 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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BrAiN said: Assists don't win games... GOALS do.
That's just stupid.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: Pat Bateman, VP]
#7890088 - 01/16/08 08:13 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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You can set up a person like you're a God.. if the fucker you pass it to can't shoot for shit, then you AINT GUNNA WIN.
Hell.. the assist comes from the last two people to touch the puck on your team before the cypher is broken. Fuck... Goalies get assists all the time. Does that mean they're awesome offensive players?
Having 10 goals and 50 assists is like being having an amazing ability to get a girl's clothes off, but having a 3 inch penis.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7890148 - 01/16/08 08:25 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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Not necessarily true. If you're making cross goal passes to a dude sitting on the crease, then it's your pass that creates the goal. Also, I'm sure Syd is smart enough to know who is and isn't going to score. Like for me, I play goalie in lacrosse, if I know someone is going to be likely to drop a ball I give to them, I'm gonna fucking keep it myself. If Crosby didn't think his pass was going to result in a goal in all honesty I think he'd keep it himself.
I really don't think Ovechkin is better than Crosby man.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7890218 - 01/16/08 08:37 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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In all honestly I'd say they're dead even.
In a situation like that when you're looking at stats and everything points to equal skill.. I think the best way to determine who's better is CONSISTENCY... and they both have it.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7890220 - 01/16/08 08:38 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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if crosby is better then ovechkin...then why is Alex O the highest paid athlete in the history of the sport?
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7890228 - 01/16/08 08:39 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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BrAiN said: In all honestly I'd say they're dead even.
In a situation like that when you're looking at stats and everything points to equal skill.. I think the best way to determine who's better is CONSISTENCY... and they both have it.
cant argue with that explanation... well put
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: deadHead321]
#7890684 - 01/16/08 10:09 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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So McNabb was the best QB when he inked his deal, right? The highest paid aren't always the best man. Who's to say they wouldn't have paid Crosby more if they had the opportunity?
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7891645 - 01/17/08 02:07 AM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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honestly at this point i dont think you could give a fair nod as to whos the better player, they both have played exceptional. crosby is on a slightly better team so that helps a little. either way they are up there in terms of elite.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: jewunit]
#7891971 - 01/17/08 07:28 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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jewunit said: So McNabb was the best QB when he inked his deal, right? The highest paid aren't always the best man. Who's to say they wouldn't have paid Crosby more if they had the opportunity?
Yea just look at Jagr. They traded his ass to the Capitals (a team where the fans DESPISED HIM) for a then-record-setting 8 year 11-mill- a year contract and he started sucking HAIRY DONKEY BALLS.
Maybe because the caps wouldn't let him cheat like he used to do ALL THE FUCKING TIME in pittsburg.
I hope someone checks him into the boards one day and he loses his ability to skate. Hockey would be better off without that douchebag.
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Re: Ovechkin the highest paid NHL player ever [Re: BrAiN]
#7893272 - 01/17/08 02:29 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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Vinny is better then both of them.
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