Wild Thing
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Wild Siberian goes wild again, this time in a good sense... :-)
Corey Masisak, TWT, Nov. 13, 2008:
Semin's three first-period points vaulted him past Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin into the NHL scoring lead, and a goal in the second pushed him ahead of Buffalo's Thomas Vanek for tops in the league in goals.
"I hope he is going to play the same way," Ovechkin said. "If he can play the same, he is going to be the best player in the league, I think."
Semin leads NHL three stars from yesterday games.
Game highlights from www.nhl.tv
Corey Masisak, TWT, Nov. 12, 2008:
*The top line was close to unstoppable tonight. When Alex Ovechkin has three points and is the least productive guy on his line, it is probablt going to be a good night.
*Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Alexander Semin, Mike Green and Jeff Schultz were on the ice for all four even-strength goals, while Brooks Laich was on for the PPG instead of Schultz. The result is a 5-1 win where five guys are a +4 and 13 guys are even. That's pretty unique.
*Semin's numbers against the Hurricanes are impressive: 17 goals and 28 points in 21 games. He now leads the NHL in goals (13), points (27), and plus-minus (+17). Hard to not peg him as the MVP at this point.
*The Caps are in first place in the Southeast, and have won four straight games against Carolina. Considering how last season ended, how the Caps stole one six days ago and then just drubbed them tonight, the Hurricanes have not had a good few months against the Caps.
"We controlled the game, controlled the puck and probably never play in our zone - maybe there was a couple of times," Ovechkin said. "We create some moments, and we have a beautiful game. ... It was great game for our line and for whole team."
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4 comments:
it was a great game to watch. so glad I broke down and bought NHl game center live. it's well worth the money.
the first four goals were all hard slap shots, so by no means were they easy peazy goals. all the goals looked really nice backie's rebound off ovie's shot as well. Johnny again played great, it was good to see him at least dressed on the bench after the 1st period. Theo got his first shutout haha. as ppl on the message boards have been saying, "to solve the problem of theo letting in easy goals in the first, don't put him in net until the 2nd" theo made some HUGE saves on the PK and good ones all around.
what can you say about this number 1 line, they finally clicked. the puck pocession for the Caps during this game was incredible. I don't really remember the canes getting it in the Caps zone and keeping it there for a long time, we howevere had it in their zone a long time and went after rebounds and kept the puck. beautiful thing.
semin is 1 assist shy of tying crosby and 3 assists shy of tying malkin. soon it'll be nice to see nothing but semin up there on the leader board.
ok and on a final note. vote for semin, green, and ovechkin for the NHL All-Star Game.
semin is in 4th place overall among forwards for voting, ovechkin is 5th and green is 4th for D-men. Let's keep them on top!!!
Vote for Semin, Green, Ovechkin and write in vote for Fedorov, you need to paste this:
Sergei Fedorov [id: 8446788]
whats with that id number thingy
When you type in the name, it will appear as Sergei Fedorov [id: 8446788] in drop-down, but something this ajax drop-down won't show. If you cut and paste it, it will accept it, without id it won't.
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