"Bye bye, bye bye" (Ovie's postgame video update)
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Pierre McGuire and Mad 'Dog' Mike analyzing Alex Ovechkin play...
"If he plays like the best, if he scores like the best, he's the best."
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Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury analyzing Ovechkin, Crosby and Malkin.
Who's the dog this year? Well... Detroit... This how the conversation ended.. bwahaha
But there's a truth there, Detroit is boring, look at empty seats in Joe Louis Arena. Nick Lidstrom? I don't remember who was it, but he said, "The only emotion I've ever seen in Lidstrom was when he raised his eyebrows losing in poker".
AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) -Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals put their biggest rival firmly in the rear view mirror Sunday, thumping Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 5-2 victory that included a dismissive goodbye wave from one superstar to the other.
Ovechkin scored his league-leading 43rd goal, one of five Capitals to find the net, and Washington chased goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury in the second period in a blowout that should settle any doubt the tide has turned in a series that used to be one-sided in favor of the Penguins.
The game's other highlight came in the final minute of the second period, when Ovechkin gave Crosby a nudge with the shoulder as both skated the benches. Crosby retaliated by pushing Ovechkin's upper body over the boards at the Capitals' bench.
Ovechkin then took his arm and gave Crosby a squeeze around the neck, and Crosby's helmet came off as linesman Greg Devorski stepped in to break up the two.
Crosby was clearly agitated and continued to be restrained by Devorski.
Now Crosby
Stay away
Cindy Crosby
Listen what I say
Bye bye, bye bye
Meanwhile, Ovechkin took his spot on the Capitals bench, smiled and gave Crosby a "Bye bye" wave with his left hand.
The sellout crowd and national television audience came to see Ovechkin, Crosby and Evgeni Malkin - three of the top scorers in the NHL - but Crosby and Malkin had to settle for one assist apiece on Gonchar's goal.
A rare thing happened today that happens very seldom in the nature... Crosby Schmosby got a primary assist today from Malkin Schmulkin who got a secondary one. Those legendary assist geniuses lead the NHL. Bravo!
Puck Daddy:
As has become somewhat of an Olympic sport when the Penguins come to D.C., the Sidney Crosby mockery is in overdrive today.
Sid also had an altercation with Alexander Ovechkin near the end of the second period -- jostling the Capitals star near the benches. The small but memorable moment ended with Crosby without a helmet and Ovechkin dismissively waving a glove at him.
Kukla's Korner:
"The lip service going toward Crosby has been over the top here this afternoon."
~ Pierre McGuire, from “between the benches” in DC.
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Ovechkin, Caps continue to own Crosby, Pens
Or Crosby was Ovechkin's bitch again... :-)
Update:
Corey Masisak, TWT:
Twice Ovechkin and Crosby came nose-to-nose and traded shoves and verbal jabs. One time late in the second period, Ovechkin knocked Crosby's helmet off and then shooed him to the Penguins bench with a flick of wrist.
“Yeah, well he started it,” Bruce Boudreau said of Crosby. “Sidney was jawing at everybody. Every time he came off, you could see our bench talking to him and him talking to our bench. I think he got frustrated that he wasn’t getting the freedom he’s had before in previous games in this building.”
Said Crosby: "“I was skating to the bench and he pushed me from behind so I gave him a shot back. That’s hockey and he likes to run around these days. That was it.”
Capitals Insider, WaPo:
*Sergei Fedorov recorded his first multi-point game in eight contests with an assist and the game-winning goal against the Penguins. His goal from the high slot came after Semin made a nice play to steal the puck from Pittsburgh's Jordan Staal at the blue line.
"We forecheck together and Semin read it very well," Fedorov said. "(He) step up and cover the blue line and I knew he might pass to me so I just support him and then he give it to me. After that I don't remember much. I just swing at the puck and fire away."
*Fedorov now has four points (1G, 3A) in the past four games. "He looked good today," Boudreau said. "The more Sergei plays, the stronger he gets. We need that offensive second line center that he brings to the game. The intangibles he brings every night and when he's on top of his game like that he's a pretty good player still."
DC Sports Bog:
Sidney Crosby was asked by Washington Post consultant Stephen Ball whether Alex Ovechkin's celebratory antics ever cross the line.
"I don't like it personally, but that's him," Crosby said. "And like it or lump it, that's what he does. Some people like it, some people don't. Personally, I don't like it, but you know what, he's a good player."
NBC's Pierre McGuire, situated between the benches, suggested on air that some of the Capitals' "lip service" directed toward Crosby in particular was excessive, though he was unable to get more specific, presumably due to FCC regulations.
After the game, Crosby was asked about the words thrown in his direction from the Caps; "that's always the case," he said. "You know, it doesn't change from team to team."
Crosby was also asked about his second-period shoving match with Ovechkin; "I don't know, I was skating to the bench and he pushed me from behind so I just gave him a shot back," Crosby said. "That's hockey, and he likes to run around these days, so that was it."
"It was not a cheap shot," Ovechkin said. "It was a game moment. If he don't like it, it's his problem."
More Crosby? Sure, he's what he said about Ovechkin's play: "He had a couple good chances and he's out there hitting guys like he normally does," Crosby said. A reporter said it seemed like Crosby was unhappy with Ovechkin at times, and asked whether it was "just hockey."
"Yeah," Crosby said, "I guess."
Meantime, McGuire was rushing out of the building to catch a flight, but I briefly asked him about the cross-ice jabbering he had referenced.
"Same as it always is," McGuire said. "It's the NHL. Guys compete and they say stuff."
So, nothing unusual?
"No," he said. "It was a little more towards Sidney than usual. It's a competition-type game. They want to get in his head. They want to play with him. But no, it's normal, it's the way it is. Guys compete and it's a very big rivalry....The intensity levels are huge, especially when you have rivalry-type situations. Pittsburgh-Washington's a huge rivalry, and you've got proud guys like Crosby and Ovechkin competing against one another. Stuff happens."
I asked McGuire how much of the stuff he hears is unfit to repeat over the air; "Most," he said. "Most of it cannot be repeated. I mean, guys compete."
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here is something you might find interesting and I know it gave me all the more reason to keep losing what little respect I did have for #87. He did a post-practice interview today and he seemed determined to call Ovie dirty and a head hunter. here is a good chunk of it.
Crosby Interview
Reporter: We’re use to seeing the edge between Malkin and Ovechkin, and you got sort of an edge between you and Ovechkin in the game against the Capitals, did that come from the last game, or did that sort of generate in the course of 3 periods yesterday?
Crosby: It’s probably been four years *scoffs* I mean we’ve always had some good battles, I don’t know if for some reason he’s starting to run around a bit more, he’s coming after me a little bit more, obviously he’s gone after Geno many cases before so that just makes things a little more intense, that’s just the way it is.
Reporter: Did you hear about what he said? That you talk too much.
Crosby: Yes *scoffs* I think I only talked to him when he ran me a couple times so that’s the only talking I did and he talked back to me, so I guess if I do he does too.
Reporter: What was that wave, what was that?
Crosby: I don’t know, I mean he taunts and does those things. I don’t think that’s the way to play, I mean all I’m all for playing hard, I think he’s a great player, he plays hard, there’s no doubt, he doesn’t need to take runs. He went at Geno’s head probably three shifts before he went after me. He’s hitting to hurt guys in the head.
Reporter: Is it nice to know those two have patched things up so you don’t have to worry about him during a game
Crosby: Well he still got ran right before that so I don’t know if things are patched up but it’s not quite as bad as it was before, so that’s good. It’s a rivalry that’s to be expected. We all realize that, we’ve been on the winning side of things in the past, this year we’ve lost to them. That’s hockey, all that stuff aside the games are good for everyone but you don’t need everyone chasing each other around out there.
Then loosely quoted. A reporter asks Crosby what it is like seeing a guy with such skill play so physical and unexpected of a player who normally has enforcers to do that stuff instead, how it is different seeing a superstar give hits too.
Crosby responds with comments about Iginla and Shane Doan how they are such good hockey players but also a physical source as well. And then goes on to say…
Crosby: but there’s a difference, those guys are hitting hard, don’t get me wrong if they see a guy with his head down they are going to finish him, that’s hockey, but they’re not taking ten strides and jumping at a guy or hitting him after the whistle. There’s a respect factor there and I think that’s important.
Reporter: Is he always going after people’s head?
Crosby: I don’t know if it’s necessarily going after people’s heads, it’s the taking ten strides and the odd times his hands are up a little bit. You know that’s a strength as well, he’s a physical presence out there and you can’t take that away from him but there’s a way to do it I think.
Loosely quoted again a reporter asks how Crosby deals with it. And Crosby says that he knows he doesn’t have the size to get into a hitting match with the person, but he is not going to shy away either. Then another reporter asks about enforcers and how they are no longer the only guys who can be physical and how guys who do love to go at it with one another have to stay within the size so to speak and how that can be a factor in a game. Then Crosby responds with….
Crosby: At the end of the day it comes down to respect and the way I learned how to play the game was heart. You’re going to have guys you hate to play against. Look at Orps on our team, I’m sure guys hate to play against him, he gives a hack and a whack here and there, those are challenges you look forward to in a game. (then he lists off player son other teams, that he enjoys playing because of the physical challenge and continues…) but those guys aren’t taking runs at anybody or going after their heads either.
Loosely quoted the reporter goes I guess what I’m getting at is people were saying Orpik don’t go after Brashear and maybe that was a point in the game where a fight needed to happen but that there is this rule, written or understood that big guys only go after big guys. Then Crosby says Brashear probably would’ve went in Orpik would’ve wanted to and how he would have had an advantage then goes on to say…
Crosby: But you’re never going to fix that stuff, guys are going to go hard at each other as long as it’s in good nature and for the pure fact of doing what it takes to win and in the right way.
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