Let’s call this exactly what it is, a hit piece aimed at diminishing everything Alex Ovechkin and Capitals have accomplished this year. The writer makes absurd suggestions, such as the reasoning for the Capitals making it to the finals was because they, “didn't have to go through Lundqvist”. He even includes a bizarre comment calling Ovechkin fat.
Continuing, the article claims the Golden Knights (or Golden Cinderellas as he calls them) were an easy match-up, and the result would have been different, "if the league’s best two regular-season teams, Nashville and Winnipeg, hadn’t been bracketed into a second-round match-up". He goes on to say the NHL somehow matched the Predators and the Jets
together to, "give lesser teams their best chance at winning."
How does trash like this get published by a so-called legitimate news organization?
Below is the article for those interested in archived format so they won't benefit from your click. (credit to DearDiary)
Stanley Cup win doesn’t erase Alex Ovechkin’s ledger of losing
First, it's Larry Brooks.
Second...what was so "disgusting" about it? The title was a click bait title sure, and it's homer Brooks tossing a cookie to Lundqvist (eye roll worthy) but outside of that...what's so bad about it?
His head is in the right place but looking in all the wrong places. I'd take a look at "**** this league" as to why they won.
Dude still finds a way to trash Ovi's legacy even when he just hoisted the Cups a few days ago. Instead of congratulating the guy, he doubles down and still says that Ovi is a loser. Sad.
So if Ilya Kovalchuk gets around $6 million per on what is expected to be a two- or three-year free agent deal, then didn’t the Devils have it exactly right at pegging his AAV at $6,666,667 on the 15-year contract for which they were prosecuted/persecuted by the NHL?
What did the Capitals have to prove that they didn't?no he isn't at all
they still have the memories of all those failed years in the playoffs. they won't go away no matter how hard you try and reason they canWhat did the Capitals have to prove that they didn't?
They won the Cup. They beat the Penguins. They beat Fleury. They beat George McPhee. They beat Tortarella, Callahan, Girardi, McDonagh, Stralman, Hagelin, and Brassard. That's more members of the Rangers rosters that tormented them than are currently left on this Rangers team. They came back from series deficits in each and every series. They exorcised all their demons. What's left for them to prove? That they can beat the shell of Henrik Lundqvist?
2012 called, they want their Henrik Lundqvist reference back.
they still have the memories of all those failed years in the playoffs. they won't go away no matter how hard you try and reason they can
they still have the memories of all those failed years in the playoffs. they won't go away no matter how hard you try and reason they can