Mama Ovechkin: "Gleason Needs to Get Himself a Pair of Glasses"
by tuvanhillbilly on Dec 1, 2009 7:24 PM EST
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Print[This afternoon] Sovietsky Sport correspondent Pavel Lysenkov spoke by telephone with Alex Ovechkin's mother, Tatiana Ovechkina, who was in Moscow.
"That defenseman Gleason should wear glasses when he's out on the ice!" said mama Ovechkin indignantly. "So he can see what's happening on the ice and have time to coordinate his moves. He even came back and played the rest of the game, and here Sasha could have been seriously injured."
"This is how I saw it: The defenseman got the puck, and Sasha went towards him to try and force a turnover. At that moment another Carolina player skated by him and blocked his view..."
"Again, Gleason should get him some rose or dark colored glasses. Or contact lenses. He shouldn't be staring at the ice, looking at the color of his laces or the puck. You can't play like that! A hockey player has to keep his head up! And my son was out the rest of the game..."
Like in the Buffalo game. That was also a crazy situation, and Kaleta didn't even get injured.
"They're all alive and healthy, and Sasha is expelled. Is that fair?"
Was Alexander seriously injured?
"I'm not going to talk about it. Ask him about it."
Is there a risk that he'll miss the Olympics?
"I don't think so. Knock on wood."
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Mama Ovechkin needs more interviews.
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I’m certain the team’s staff disagrees with you vehemently.
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by CapitalCentre on Dec 1, 2009 9:29 PM EST up reply actions
Was Alexander seriously injured?
“I’m not going to talk about it. Ask him about it.”
Is there a risk that he’ll miss the Olympics?
“I don’t think so. Knock on wood.”
Conspicuously absent from the first response is “I don’t know”, or anything suggesting that, so the fact that she even entertains the notion posed in the second is troubling.
/doesn’t believe “day-to-day” at all
by sixsevenfiftysix on Dec 1, 2009 7:37 PM EST reply actions
This is about as relevant as Hedican, but man, it sure is a whole lot more entertaining.
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Atta dinnin stick a who!
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by Ben Rothenberg on Dec 1, 2009 9:02 PM EST up reply actions
Mama Ovechkin rules. You can tell which side of the family Ovechkin got his pugnacity from.
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by The Ghost of Bebop on Dec 1, 2009 8:21 PM EST reply actions
In case you don’t know Tatiana Ovechkina won two Olympic Golds in basketball while playing with the Russian National Team. She’s quite a lady.
Tatiana Ovechkina won two Olympic Golds in basketball while playing with the Russian National Team after she was hit by a car and deemed unlikely to walk again.
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fwiw, on the topic of peoples’ opinions of Ovie, TSN’s Darren Dreger has this to say:
Eight of the 17 players who responded to the question said they regard Ovechkin as a very good, hard-hitting player, while seven consider him to be both reckless and dirty. Two NHL players said he is normally very hard hitting, but that recently he has been reckless.
Detroit Red Wings forward Brad May is one of the 17 players who participated in the anonymous poll, but May asked that his opinion on Ovechkin to be revealed. “Incidental contact! Remember, it’s a physical game,” said May. “People forget that. I have no issue with him. He’s fast and aggressive and stuff happens.”
I really want to know who he polled. These numbers mean nothing really, unless that information is revealed (not that it should be.)
I was just writing this up in tomorrow’s Clips. The positive spin here is “only 28% of players polled believed Ovechkin to be reckless and dirty” (and why they don’t draw the distinction between the two is beyond me… it’s like Karl Rove wrote the polling question). But to call this poll unscientific would be an understatement.
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What’s more telling to me is that two of the twenty five noted that he is normally very hard hitting but that recently he has been reckless.
Bobby Mac just said something similar on TSN wrt Ovie’s suspension – not that necessarily this incident was worthy of a 2 game suspension, but that the pattern of behaviour for Ovie has gotten increasingly reckless (“nip in the bud” suspension).
That stood out to me too. I’m going to try not to speculate on his state of mind or personal life, but I do wonder if it’s a conscious change on his part, or if maybe something has happened in the past month or two that has resulted in a higher degree of recklessness.
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by CapitalCentre on Dec 1, 2009 9:35 PM EST up reply actions
Could it be the events of the Columbus game? Or is it the fact we have NO enforcer this year and so Ovi feels the pressure to be it?
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He did seem to zero in on Gleason after Backstrom was given a rough run coming into the zone…
by langwayshelmet on Dec 1, 2009 10:37 PM EST up reply actions
That’s my take exactly. I recently got taken to the woodshed here by suggesting we needed someone like Brashear to do the “dirty work”. Of course, I’d rather have a Dale Hunter or others like him who could dish it out but still play some real hockey while taking the pressure off of AO to be the policeman, if that indeed is why he seems to be playing more aggressively. We’re very lucky (or deep) to be 5-1-1 without that force in the lineup.
Man in the rink interview…
Interviewer: Pardon me, sir, but we are doing a man-in-the-rink interview for Unbiased Canadian Media Network on the vile and dastardly hit that Alex Ovechkin had on Tim Gleason recently. Would you be willing to answer a question for our listeners?
Clueless Respondent: Uh….yeah, sure.
Interviewer: Do you think Alex Ovechkin is: a) a dirty, reckless, no-good, spineless, fiendish, yellah-bellied, lily-livered goon, or b) a dirty, reckless, no-good, spineless, fiendish, yellah-bellied, lily-livered thug?
If you've read this far...seek help.
Btw, 28% went on record (even anonymously) with “AO is dirty and reckless,” which is just slightly more than half of the percentage that had Sidney Crosby as the League’s biggest whiner.
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Actually. doesn’t 9 of 17 give something like 53%? [I take 9 just because 7 flat out said he was reckless, and 2 said he “is now”.]
The poll was out of 25 players. 7/25 = .28.
I had to check TSN for the article; I though t I was in bizarro math world too.
8 of the 25 did not respond.
but when you conduct a survey, the no responses don’t get put in the denominator.
7/17. if you want to extrapolate to 25, you assume the 7/17 percentage also applies to the other 8.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 1, 2009 11:01 PM EST up reply actions
Nope.
Eight of the 17 players who responded to the question
.. so 25 were asked, but only 17 responded, so the denominator should be 17, numerator 7 – flat out reckless and dirty and then 2 of 17 saying “hard-hitting before, lately reckless.”
7/17 gives 41%, 9/17 gives 53%.
Either way, the scienfic-ness (wow, is that even a word?) of the survey is ridiculous. But it’s interesting to note the two that said they would consider him reckless only recently.
But what we’re saying is that 28% of players asked said he was dirty and reckless.
by sixsevenfiftysix on Dec 1, 2009 11:20 PM EST up reply actions
oh true :). 28% of asked. deceptive though, if we don’t know why they didn’t respond. I think what NB was saying was that you could also assume the 7/17 % could be applied to the 8 that didn’t respond. Either way, I hope the stigma doesn’t attach itself to Ovie or he’ll never get the benefit of the doubt (from the zebras anyway).
Precisely. C’mon, people… this is D.C.!
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Reply fail, again.
BTW: Mama Ovechkin needs to take off her rose-colored glasses. There wasn’t anybody between Ovie and Gleason, and the kneeing sure looked intentional to me (not planned, but a last-ditch attempt by Ovie to pull off the hit even after Gleason was out of the way: see the recent post by Peerless for a nice sequence of frames: http://peerlessprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/12/shocking-new-developments.html )
Is there a risk that he’ll miss the Olympics?
“I don’t think so. Knock on wood. Also, tell Sasha to tell Alexander and Semyon that I am sending cookies.”
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by Gould Old Days on Dec 1, 2009 10:24 PM EST up reply actions
Can’t agree with her on this one. Gleason definitely saw AO coming, and while he may not have reacted in a way that protected himself that does not absolve AO of blame.
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Yup. I’m with this. But what do you expect from a mom? If I ever made a mistake my mom would have my back.
Opinions of yours I don't care about: Politics, Religion, Ovechkin.
as i just wrote over at CC: according to mama bumppo, i’ve never deserved any of my bad grades, from elementary school through grad school. always my teacher’s fault, my GF’s fault, my roommate’s fault, etc.
OT, but I’d love to see a BH an MarioD showdown.
Opinions of yours I don't care about: Politics, Religion, Ovechkin.
every post would begin with name-calling and end with screen shots.
further OT, do you approve of urban’s handling of future first rounder carlos dunlap? :)
eerily similar to meyer’s suspension of marcus thomas in ’06 that i referenced…almost gives me hope, but still a heck of a loss.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 2, 2009 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
I hadn’t heard he was officially suspended but I suspected he would be. FWIW, our little debate has made me soften my stance on Meyer significantly. I’ve kept that stuff in mind and mulled it over since then and I think you’re right that it’s a “don’t hate the [coach] hate the [system]” situation. I’m not completely closed minded, I’m just usually right.
Opinions of yours I don't care about: Politics, Religion, Ovechkin.
there are also a lot of exterior pressures in these situations, and sometimes i wonder if the AD is making the sit/start call, not the coach. regardless, none of these guys are perfect and winning can definitely blind them to right and wrong. the current pete carroll vs. rick neuheisel drama is really unfortunate to me, because it takes all the attention away from their players and seems like the worst possible lesson on sportsmanship.
But what do you expect from a mom? If I ever made a mistake my mom would have my back.
This is one of two points to be made about this. She went over the top a bit, but I think we all get where she is coming from as a Mom. The second point is relatives, friends, posse, etc. of athletes are best at their supporting roles when they are publicly silent. Getting involved in this stuff is never good. It makes them and the athlete look bad.
A man gotta have a code
seriously, the carolina player “blocked his view?”
priceless.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 1, 2009 11:03 PM EST up reply actions
Mama Ovechkin
should probably take a page from Mama Malkin’s book and shut her damn mouth. Her analysis of the Gleason play was so bad, she should work for Versus. Where is this invisible Carolina player that blocked his view of Gleason? It was a blatant kneeing. I’m sure Patrick Kaleta and Gleason have mothers too. Have you read about them badmouthing OV? She should have some f-ing respect.
maybe more realistically she should have kept her mouth shut. but she’s just his mom and this seems like a typical mom response; i don’t think she has any responsibility to be a statesman here. this really upsets you?
I heart Ovi's mom.
Maybe she needs to come to some games and have the Mama Malkin factor in the playoffs. You know, if she’s there, her son will have a good game…
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by Brad_Richards_Rocks on Dec 2, 2009 2:53 PM EST reply actions
Don't mess with hockeymoms
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Mama Ovechkin vs. Geno’s Mom vs. Sarah Palin… the stuff of nightmares.
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by CapitalCentre on Dec 2, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I’ve got Mama Ovie in a fight for sure – neither Palin nor Geno’s Mom can claim former Olympic Gold Medalist.
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by Knee high to a duck on Dec 2, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions
I don't care.
I just honesty love all aspects of Ovie!!! The dude is AWESOME!!!!!
OVECHKIN
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