Viking Paul on Ovechkin’s Fifty
March 21, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Below is the best comment I read today regarding Ovechkin’s controversy-causing (in some quarters) 50th goal celebration:
Alexander Ovechkin is a supreme talent, actually, and he has a genuine love of the game. Don Cherry is a mouthpiece who despises anything done by non-Canadian players, and hockey fans in this country put far too much stock in his often incomprehensible ramblings.
Ovechkin loves the game he plays. He enjoys it, he’s out there before games shooting pucks in his street clothes. He shows more dedication to the game we love than many Canadian players do, more sheer joy and passion for it. Does he have an ego? Absolutely. He’s a hockey player. Walk down any high school hallway in this country and you’ll immediately find a group of feather-haired, broad-shouldered young men who can barely get their helmets on their inflated heads. Egotism is encouraged in pro-sports.
Ovechkin has scored 50+ goals in threee straight seasons. This is remarkable. His “hot stick” routine was no more bothersome than Jaromir Jagr’s old skeet-shooting move. Ovechkin is one of the most exciting players we can watch, and please, Don Cherry has no right to call anyone else showy.
It was written by someone called “Viking Paul” as a response to this story on cbc.ca
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