Ovagkin < Douche

Apparently, Alexander Ovechkin is proving his idiocy yet again. After today's game, he apparently made the comment that Malkin knows that the Penguins are a good team without Crosby, but not that good.  I know that many worse things have been said and done since that comment was made, and that I perhaps need a life to comment on it. Can't argue.  However, most players in general, particularly high profile hockey players are a lot more gracious and classy than that. After a loss in particular, most would say that their opponent was playing well without their leader and leave it at that.  If the Pens are not that good without Crosby, where does that leave your Craps son?  The Penguins despite the key man games lost are 5 points ahead of the Capitals, despite playing in a significantly tougher division.  Yo, Alex, remember last year's playoffs?  The Penguins played the last half of the year without Geno and Crosby among others, and still got 106 points.  Then, still minus those two players plus top penalty killer Matt Cooke, took the Tampa Bay Lightning to 7 games, before succumbing 1-0 in a seventh game.  That same Lightning team SWEPT your Caps in the next round. SWEPTTTTTTTTTT.  In fact, I am not sure what qualifies the Great 8 to speak on the subject of how good a team is at the NHL level.  Despite all of the hype and promise, Ovechkin has never seen a playoff game past the second round.  He was drafted 1st overall in the 2004 entry draft, and  played his first full season in the NHL during the 2005-06 campaign.  For those who don't know, Evgeni Malkin was selected with the pick right after Ovechkin.  The Capitals first year in the playoffs for the Capitals was 2007-08, and they were bounced out of those playoffs in the first round by the Flyers.  In 2008-09, the Capitals jumped out to a 2-0 series lead against the Pittsburgh Penguins.  The Penguins rebounded to eliminate the Capitals in seven games, including a decisive drubbing in Washington in Game 7 en route to a Stanley Cup Championship.  Going into the next season, the parade routes were planned during the summer, and the Caps on cue, ripped through the regular season, racking up 121 points and the President's Trophy as the league's top REGULAR SEASON team.  After all of that, the Capitals were bounced out of the playoffs in the first round by 8th seed Montreal!  Last year, after another dominating regular season run, the Capitals were SWEPT in round two of the playoffs, by the same Tampa team that need 7 games to get past the injury riddled Penguins in round one.  In one less season, Geno has been to two Stanley Cup Finals, won a Stanley Cup, and the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP.  This season, Ovechkin is playing in the upper middle of the pack in scoring, while Malkin has lifted an even more injury riddled Pens team on his back and back into the playoff picture.  Alex, time to STFU until you achieve something beyond your individual awards, and a world record for uncalled dirty plays.   By the way, you should be ashamed to accept James Neal's All-Star berth, but the NHL needed a circus monkey for its annual winter boredomfest, and you sir fit THAT bill quite well.