Sunday Caps Clips

Oh, I’m just being dramatic, and slightly silly. No real anger towards ONC. She was ONC before, right?

Yep. Content desert out there. Must be August or somethin’. I’ll have a Capitals Farm Report tomorrow though.

It’s quoted in the comment, not blockquoted though.

Well, at the start it is (Knuble). But then afterwards it’s Crosby.

BTW, Kovy is the best shooter. (or at least one of two best, we can be pretty sure—other is Tanguay; looking for link from BtN hockey, but not finding it, though).

He had 29 goals in 69 games, and his shooting percentage was 4 points better than it was in any of those five earlier years. It seems like a decent conclusion given the data.

His goals per game and shooting percentage were both the highest of his career.

If you look at Ovi season by season he kinda scores the majority of his goals a different way each season. Like at first it was mostly blazing down the wing and slapshots, then it moved to one-timers and quick off the faceoffs, and then to more lateral movements. Stamkos is a great scorer too and I’m sure he can change it up too.

Stamkos has some great play makers to work with is the thing. He doesn’t really need to change his style up too much with St. Louis on his side.

Crosby is a bit more unknown. He’ll continue to get 30s easily. This season he just had to pull the trigger a lot more cause his teammates wouldn’t. Hes the type always willing to find a way to win, and he loves dirty goals. If anyone else on the team can prove willing and able to score, he’ll set them up every time over himself.

Oh dear. That’s a shame. I really was hoping for an evenhanded, objective book.

Sounds as if Cox’s book is more of a “critical just because I want to and it’s unauthorized anyway” type of analysis. I’m all for interviewing everyone to get a full picture of Ovi but obviously interviews from those who know him in person should be given more weight. And if Ovi didn’t authorized it, then how forthcoming would his close friends and family be with a journalist writing something unauthorized.

I was initially not sure of the book because of the subtitle “most dangerous player.” For me it was less of a pun on the word dangerous and more of an appeal to fans who prefer Jim Kelley’s view of Ovi.

Guess I’ll be checking it out of the library rather than buying it.

I concur with what vancitydan said yesterday about Cox. He is not as highly regarded in Canadian media circles as one may think here. I live in Toronto and he is the main hockey writer for the Toronto Star. Does he know the local (read Leafs) market? Yes. Is he as strong on the NHL as a whole. Dicier territory. Eric Duhatschek or James Mirtle are stronger hockey writers/ sources writing for Toronto papers (although Eric is based out of Alberta).

I am guessing it won’t be a hagiography on Ovi. I wouldn’t want it to be. Nor do I want a hatchet job on the great 8. Something fair and balanced (sorry F&B) is fine enough for me. But I do fear that people in the Rink may rush to any criticism of Ovi as some xenophobic hatred by the Canadian media of Ovi and the Caps as a whole. As I have said in the past and with examples. This is simply not true. The Canadian media doesn’t have it in for the Caps: be it Ovi, Green, Semin, Backs etc. I guess I would ask if Jim Kelley or Stan Fischler had written a critical bio of Ovi, would it be called an American media hatchet job?

I was wondering if you’d get an advance copy. You’ll be saving us all money by telling us not to buy it, right?

Are we gonna get a book review before it comes out?

I’m personally looking forward to Nate Ewell’s tweets regarding the book ( and Mr. Cox).