"I won't lie, I wanted to score the 50th goal at home. But, apparently, God wants me to score it in...

"I won't lie, I wanted to score the 50th goal at home. But, apparently, God wants me to score it in the game against Atlanta."

- Alexander Ovechkin

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I love his confidence that he will score tonight.

by Ovechwin on Mar 16, 2009 12:26 PM EDT reply actions

that’s Red Jesus calling his shot, no?

by bigonetimer on Mar 16, 2009 12:26 PM EDT reply actions

Sure sounds like it.

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by J.P. on Mar 16, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Sure sounds like it to me.

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by gotsparkly on Mar 16, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Tomas Vokoun doesn’t feel so bad now.

"Good crowd out there tonight, boys, let's really try to win this one."

by Bald Pollack on Mar 16, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

it’s a rarity in recent DC sports history: I can count on one finger—Riggins Counter Trey—that’s as sure a thing as 8.

[I hope Grapes threw up a little in his mouth when he read it, too.]

by bigonetimer on Mar 16, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Byner Counter Trey was pretty good in the early 1990s too…

by Gould Old Days on Mar 16, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions

one day

i want Ovi to shoot and hit a goalie square in the chest, and have the momentum of the shot knock the goalie into the net for the score.

doesn’t have to be this game, just eventually…

by ns on Mar 16, 2009 12:39 PM EDT reply actions

It's been Done

A guy for the Mighty Ducks did that once, I believe his name was Fulton and it was a slapshot.

-shwedy

by shwedy on Mar 16, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions

That really only happens in Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey 98.

Time to find the N64…

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by Ben Rothenberg on Mar 16, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Not likely to happen from Ovie… the problem is that you have tranfer the momentum from the puck to the goalie and still keep enough on the puck to cross the line. Going in at the chest would be very difficult as the center of mass is there.

What is likely to happen one day is that the Ovie will take a shot, the goalie will catch it in his catching glove, and the force of the shot will push the goalie’s forearm and glove into the net. That has happened a number of times in the NHL (Al Iafrate did it once when he was with Toronto, back when he had a full head of hair…)

by MikeL-Pivonka on Mar 16, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions