890+ goals, 9 50 goal seasons, and 9 Rockets are insane, but those goals are worthless if you're not accomplishing shit in the vast majority seasons of your career. I don't wanna dismiss it and the Ovechkin stans don't like it, but Ovi's overall resume is just simply lackluster compared to all time great legends including Kucherov. Crosby dusts him, McDavid does, Jagr does. Again, goals are the most important thing in hockey, we all know that. But it simply doesn't hold more value if you have another player who is a greater more complete offensive player and is a point production monster akin to Jagr, Gretzky and Lemieux and............ is one of the greatest playoff performers ever on top of that lol. He's the greatest goalscorer ever, that's it. There's plenty of players that are overall better than him and will surpass him.
Ovi's a great playoff player, and he obviously was surrounded by lackluster playoff players like Backstrom and Kuznetsov but he's not Kuch in the slightest lol. Don't ever tell me he'd be able to do what Kuch did in 2021 after missing a full season lmao, gtfoh. Ovi has carried teams in the playoffs, but Kuch does that while ELEVATING to another stratosphere while also being f***ing clutch, the entire 2022 playoffs was a carry job that sort've told everything. He legit had Stamkos as his only offensive player while Point was injured and still carried Tampa to a cup finals appearance.
I don't hate the Rocket, but nobody in their right f***ing mind would choose the Rocket over the Ross/Hart lol. It's simply a lesser value trophy and it's not entirely worthless but it hold's zero value with the other trophies. This is facts, I'm pretty sure it's only been 1 or 2 winners (2017 Sid, 2004 Lecavlier?) for that trophy that have gone on to win the cup. That practically says everything, it's cool scoring goals but It's also way easier to shut down a goalscorer compared to a playmaker.
You may mention Ovi carrying those early dogshit caps teams but Kuch demonstrated what type of carrying ability he has last season by having an even greater season than 08 Ovi, 65 goals be damned, last year with 100 assists, a feat only done by 4 other f***ing individuals and 140+pts lmao. A random will mention the high scoring era, but this current version of Kuch is still pacing for 120-130pts in the dead puck era easily. He's a physical player but it's all IQ and based on the last 7 seasons, there's zero doubt in my mind that he could carry a team just like early 06-10 Ovi. Hell, they probably would've made the cup finals in a couple of those seasons. His IQ, Passing, Playmaking, Instincts would do more damage than all volume shots + f***ing scoring 50-60 goals all season. Instead 50, 110pts, it's more like 40-50goals, 80-90 assists, 130-140pts
Ovechkin still has 3 MVP's over him but not only did Kuch get utterly robbed last year but he has so much time to catch up on him that it would be plain delusion IMHO if he somehow manages to do it and you still claim that Ovi is a better player just because of his goals lol. Kuch is damn near close to winning back to back rosses, while also 40pts away from reaching the 200pt playoff barrier lol. Only Jagr and Kurri are the only wingers to have done that. If he does while also managing to win another cup, it's straight up laughable
