Doctor Soraluce
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Claude Lemieux also won MVP for leading in goals while line mate Richer led in points. It's understandable sometimes for a leading goal scorer to win it over the points leader. Lemiuex's goals were at huge moments. So were Ovi's. It's how he got his reputation. Pavs wasn't the clutch player that year, Couture was.Evgeny Kutznetsov had 32 points in 24 games when Capitals won the Cup. Two more than Couture. And still Alex Ovechkin won Conn Smythe and he fully deserved it. Ovie had 15 goals and 12 assists. My assumption was that if Pavs would've scored couple goals and assists on game 1-6 for example he would definitely been Conn Smythe winner as we would've won the cup with couple extra goals as IRC most of our losses in cup finals were one goal games. So he most likely would've had more goals than Ovie in 2018 if he would've played the finals even adequate level.