The greatest goalscorer of all time is only scoring this many goals this season because of a player who is having his best season yet. Not because he's good at what he's doing.
Yeah this must be accurate.
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The greatest goalscorer of all time is only scoring this many goals this season because of a player who is having his best season yet. Not because he's good at what he's doing.
Yeah this must be accurate.
Ovechkin started 10/11 with poor conditioning which mainly was not his fault. Summer of 2010 in Russia was plagued by wildfires, and endurance training in a city where you can smell the smoke everywhere is not likely to go well. Many Russian stars had a bad 2010/11 because of the marred off-season, especially Kovalchuk (who at that time was spending his off-seasons in Moscow and I believe used the same coach as Ovechkin for the off-season endurance training).
Then, about 2 months into 2010/11, Ovechkin also had a wrist injury that was bothering him at least until All-star break (it was rumored at the time that he was taking cortisone shots during the All-star break). Wrist injuries are pretty bad for snipers who rely on their shot - for example, one single wrist injury completely derailed Semin's career a couple of years later.
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After dragging the Capitals franchise for 15 years, at age 38.5 with two decades of wear someone else has to and it's apparently a travesty lol.
Do you feel safe going out on the ledge so soon?Could hit 30 actually.
Now 47th in goals.
Ovi is going to get his goals they are still giving him premium usage and sheltered MPG.
At ES he is huge liability at this point but this thread is about the goalwatch so let's keep it at that.
BallardEra
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I just enjoy the greats.
Even though Sid and Ovie have dropped off from their primes, I still want to see them stick around and add to their totals.
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That's rather normal though.
Players Ovechkin's age typically need to be put in positions to succeed, yet still have certain elite skill-sets within those parameters to be a giant asset to a team. Ovechkin is doing this now, big time.
Still an immensely valuable player for the Caps.
Fair enough, like I said it became pretty clear a couple of years ago that the Capitals were going to do everything for Ovi to get the goals record.
I just don't think that getting the record or not getting it changes anything historically for Ovi, his all time placement has been cemented already.
BallardEra
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I think that depends. For some they would need to see him break the record and possibly hit 900.
Many casuals would eat that up for sure as would many media types.
Sure sheltering and using oder guys wisely is a thing but not to the amount that the Capitals are doing as the return just isn't there.
He is scoring goals and is basically a labiality in all other areas out there.
I disagree but this thread is about watching the goal countdown, anyone arguing that he is a valuable 5 on 5 player is out to lunch as the numbers and eye test back it up so let's just watch the goal watch shall we and skip the exaggerations.
Sure some people and the media sure like the numbers game.
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They didn't sacrifice a bunch of first round draft picks like the Pens did for your boy Crosby.
In fact this season the Capitals traded away talent in order to have a better future.
You are parroting a false narrative.
Except he's third on the team in assists.
Yet another blatantly false narrative from you.
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The return is more than sufficient.
Since he's looked healthier as of late (all-star break), he has the 5th most goals in the league, and 3rd on the Caps in assists. 27 points in 23 games, which puts him 15th in the league in points in that time span.
That's elite level production only a minuscule fraction of the league can match.
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I absolutely love the saltiness of posters like wetcoast grinding their teeth as Ovie continues piling up the goals, doing everything he can to drag the Caps into the post season. Some fantastic mental gymnastics to try and downplay what the hockey world is witnessing in the greatest goal scorer in hockey history on the verge of passing a once thought to be impossible goal record
Keep it up this is great wetcoast
Keep it up this is great wetcoast
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Ovechkin’s shooting percentage was way out of whack. 8 percent until Jan 27th. Now he’s on a heater shooting at 18.5.
The reality is that some was either wrong with him to start or (more likely) he was just really unlucky. Now that the overall number is normalizing, he’s starting to score again.
That shooting percentage is still pretty low on the year btw. No reason he shouldn’t be able to blow these numbers out of the water next year.
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Exhibit A right here that's why I was hesitant to post here, the goalscoring watch is legit the anlysisis simply isn't.
So you will agree that before the break he wasn't all that good then right?
Even after the break sure there is production but even his coach is still sheltering him with offensive zone starts.
Overall the return on PP TOI and everything else isn't noteworthy for the season is it?
Ya I have to admit that I got suckered into it like usual but the facts don't change.I absolutely love the saltiness of posters like wetcoast grinding their teeth as Ovie continues piling up the goals, doing everything he can to drag the Caps into the post season. Some fantastic mental gymnastics to try and downplay what the hockey world is witnessing in the greatest goal scorer in hockey history on the verge of passing a once thought to be impossible goal record
Keep it up this is great wetcoast
as for the saltiness there is no salt here I just believe in this weird thing called the trug=th and most people who do likewise just steer clear of the Ovi hype machine and hyperbole and I'll try to just watch the goals stack up and forget the embellishments of MJ and other non reality observations.
The reality sir is that the numbers actually back up the eye test but some just don't want to look there and make excuses.
Then again that has been the case for over a decade now, lots of goals and the other stuff has been overblown.
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The era when it was just Crosby/Ovechkin, say 2006-17, was kind of meh.
Starting around 2017 when McDavid/MacKinnon/Matthews hit the league in consecutive years, with Crosby and Ovechkin still playing well and rounding out their legacies, we entered a true golden era. The past ~7 years have been awesome hockey even despite COVID interruptions.
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I remember when everyone claimed he was done, and Caps fans argued that his shooting percentage couldn't remain that low. What a difference a few months made:
I don’t have the luxury of watching every Caps game but the few I did watch at the beginning of the year I swear he had like 2-3 disallowed goals and like 5 posts.
He was still getting the chances
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Four disallowed goals and a few posts, yep
I love when Wetcoast tries to pretend that he watches a regular amount of Caps games and is anything other than a massive Ovi hater lol
Made sense that he’d start scoring. His shot volume is still in the 300 range for a season, and he wasn’t going to shoot 4-5% all year.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he got close to 35.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he got close to 35.
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It may be entirely possible that Ovechkin will end up as the career assist leader for the Capitals. He is 67 assists behind Backstrom.
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