Pittsburgh Penguins’ forward Max Talbot began a war of words with Washington Capitals’ superstar Alexander Ovechkin on Tuesday while Talbot was promoting the upcoming 2011 NHL Winter Classic between the Pens and Caps at Heinz Field on New Year’s Day.
Ever wondered who has the better goals? Ever wondered who has the nice dangles that lead to goals? Well, today is your lucky day! Here is a top 10 featuring goals by Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. Video after the jump.
Alexander Ovechkin’s season had not even gone cold yet – or at least, much colder – and his snapshot obituary had already been written. It was written that Sidney Crosby had surpassed his Russian rival, cleanly and without question.
Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin and Semyon Varlamov are expected to represent Russia at the upcoming World Hockey Championship in Germany
Sidney Crosby of the Penguins, Alex Ovechkin of the Capitals and Henrik Sedin of the Canucks are the 2009-10 finalists for the Hart Trophy. They also were the top three scorers in the NHL this past season.
Capitals GM George McPhee shipped Chris Clark to Columbus at the end of December, making room for Alex Ovechkin to take over the captaincy that was going to be his at some point anyway.
As one of the youngsters performed his flag-waving duty, Ovechkin skated toward the Capitals bench at full speed and stopped abruptly in front of the kid, spraying him with ice. Ovechkin then promptly took his seat on the Capitals bench.
The results are in and you all have spoken, here are the results to our latest poll asking “Who should win the Hart Trophy?”
This season in Vancouver it has been the Sedin show, tonight against the Calgary Flames both Sedin’s went crazy and dominated the entire game resulting in this goal, the possible goal of the year.
Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning has tied Alex Ovechkin for the Rocket Richard trophy as he has scored his 49th and 50th goal of the season.
Alex Ovechkin became the NHL’s first 50-goal scorer this season when he got his second of the game at 9:49 of the third period of the Washington Capitals’ home game against the Atlanta Thrashers on Friday night.
This final week in the NHL regular season will have 3 players battling for the Rocket Richard Trophy.
With a goal and an assist in Sunday’s 5-3 loss to the Calgary Flames at the Verizon Center, he did join a select club by reaching another milestone in his brief, but incredible, NHL career.
Move over, Alex and Sid. Steve Stamkos wants in on the race for the Rocket Richard Trophy — and a playoff berth for the Tampa Bay Lightning as well.
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