Player Discussion Alexander Ovechkin (Vol. 4)

[CapitalsCupReality]

The idiocy starts at 3:01:30

Jeff Marek - whoever that is - launches into a tirade about how he was talking to "someone" (in typical sneaky bigot fashion, he won't admit which bigot was spewing this trash), he starts focusing on nationality and asking "What is Putin going to do with a Russian beating the Canadian/Ukranian record?"

Then Bissionette idiotically asks "What do you think the probability that Putin is in the building when he breaks the record? 100%?"

And it doesn't get any less dumb from there.

I gotta say, I don’t know what the heck you’re talking about…..I listened, and I challenge everyone else to listen, 3:01 to about 3:06:30….

They’re are completely joking about Putin coming to the game he breaks the record, AND….given the incoming US Administration….?

On Putin wanting to take advantage (in political rhetoric) of the idea that a Russian is passing a Canadian with Ukrainian heritage it’s really a stretch? Really?

Big fat nothing to see here.

 

[Midnight Judges]

I gotta say, I don’t know what the heck you’re talking about…..I listened, and I challenge everyone else to listen, 3:01 to about 3:06:30….

They’re are completely joking about Putin coming to the game he breaks the record, AND….given the incoming US Administration….?

On Putin wanting to take advantage (in political rhetoric) of the idea that a Russian is passing a Canadian with Ukrainian heritage it’s really a stretch? Really?

Big fat nothing to see here.

Yeah I don’t expect most people to pick up on raging xenophobia and how it works. That’s why it’s able to persist in broad daylight. It’s how Don Cherry thrived for so long. For most people, a few backhanded denials covers for quite a bit. So if they claim everyone is behind Ovie, that somehow makes up for invoking Putin and going so far as to tie in Gretzky’s pre Canadian ancestry and claim to be “scared” about what evils might happen if Ovie breaks the record.

Jeff Marek quite obviously isn’t kidding.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Yeah I don’t expect most people to pick up on raging xenophobia and how it works. That’s why it’s able to persist in broad daylight. It’s how Don Cherry thrived for so long. For most people, a few backhanded denials covers for quite a bit. So if they claim everyone is behind Ovie, that somehow makes up for invoking Putin and going so far as to tie in Gretzky’s pre Canadian ancestry and claim to be “scared” about what evils might happen if Ovie breaks the record.

Jeff Marek quite obviously isn’t kidding.

Laughable backhanded insult. It’s right there for anyone to listen to.

Marek specifically mentions someone off record who brought up the whole idea….it’s just a discussion point among 3 dudes trying to fill four hours.

No mention of “evils”….Methinks you’re a tad over sensitive.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Has Putin ever been to a Caps game in DC?

 

[ovikovy817]

Has Putin ever been to a Caps game in DC?

Wearing the screaming eagle #8?

I don't think Putin even cares about Ovi.
I always had that feeling that Putin knows little about sports (well as a politician not involved in sports it should be just logical)
It's not because he skates twice a year that he knows the hockey story and all the stats by heart.

I have this feeling because of when I watch the "receptions" after a big event for team Russia (Hockey Worlds, Football WC, Olympics for any other sports he just says few generic words and even when he speaks 1on1 with an athlete it's the same.

Speaking of politicians.
I don't know if we spoke about Hasek on this thread or in the mains few pages ago but he
must be furious since the announcement by the NHL of the Russian heritage night for Caps vs Columbus. I saw the news few days ago.
I'd love to see his face reading the news

 

[Raikkonen]

Gretzky is said to have Belarussian ancestors, and Belarus basically is a part of Russia. Protas is the prime example (I still think we could see him in our national team, yeah).

Putin's aim is to dismantle West, he doesn't care about the record but will cheer it if it's done one day.

So it was a dumb chat, nothing more.

 

[usiel]

Gretzky is said to have Belarussian ancestors, and Belarus basically is a part of Russia. Protas is the prime example (I still think we could see him in our national team, yeah).

Putin's aim is to dismantle West, he doesn't care about the record but will cheer it if it's done one day.

So it was a dumb chat, nothing more.

Leads to so much immigration to the US from eastern Europe seems sort of dumb to make it a thing. The amount of swedes that settled in Minnesota, for example, and all the players that have come out of that state. Hockey is a human sport like all the others.

 

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[BallardEra]

That's 2 weeks to the day he got injured.