Ovechkin's latest beauty

by James Mirtle on Feb 19, 2009 12:15 PM CST Comment 13 comments

I imagine most hockey fans have seen this one already, but here it is nonetheless. The most impressive thing about the whole goal is how Ovechkin eludes the defender (Roman Hamrlik) by whacking the puck off the boards and blowing by him.

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Japers' Rink has a great frame-by-frame look at the goal over at his Capitals-themed palace. Greg Wyshynski, meanwhile, has seen Ovechkin do this so many times that he's becoming immune to his greatness.

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It was superb, breathtaking, outstanding, unbelievable… it was Alexander Ovechkin.

Look, it was a bad outlet pass by Komisarek, but there’s no way you can really fault the Habs for the sequence of events… Ovechkin’s greatness makes you react differently to individual situations. I don’t understand how Greg could fault Chipchura for not stopping him… he’s probably the least guilty of all the Habs on this play. There’s no way a broken play like this should result in a breakaway goal… the only way to explain it is that it was Ovechkin doing it. If it had been Brooks Laich who intercepted the wayward pass, he’d have just dumped it back into the Habs’ zone.

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by saskhab on Feb 19, 2009 12:52 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

No, Chipchura’s role here has to be to prevent a goal, whether he takes a penalty or not. What he did to Ovechkin would take 99.9% of players out of the play entirely, so mission accomplished.

by James Mirtle on Feb 19, 2009 1:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Definitely the best part of that play is the chip and spin to begin it all.

by Afino on Feb 19, 2009 1:08 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I agree that the way he got past Hamrlik was just breathtaking. You look at the situation just before he makes that play, and, well, there is no situation. He just created a goal out of thin air. Of course, the scoring part wasn’t that shabby either, but that was the best part.

by Malurous on Feb 19, 2009 1:09 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I always wonder on a sensational score like this if the goalie isn’t distracted by thinking “yikes, what a move…” as Ovi crashes in towards him.

More fun than a stick to the face!

by Dirk Hoag on Feb 19, 2009 1:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Not only the move, but Ovi’s not a small guy. I imagine that there is a feeling of impending doom as a goalie sees Ovi lose an edge and slide towards him.

by Sct112 on Feb 19, 2009 1:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And Chipchura’s not a small guy either. So double this impending doom when you see BOTH of them sliding towards you!

by Habs on Feb 19, 2009 2:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Is no one else mystified at Carey Price’s capitulation?

Why’s he moving across the net? Ovechkin is in a prone position, with little chance to get a shot off, yet Price seems to give him the short side. If he’d just held his ground there wouldn’t have been a goal. A simple pokecheck would’ve also done the job.

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by PRC on Feb 19, 2009 2:18 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Actually Price was covering the right post with his leg, Ovechkin somehow found a way to get the puck over his pad. Against just about any other player in the league this is not a goal.
If Price had cradled the right post with his shoulder, closing all the space, I’m sure Ovechkin would’ve tried to slide the puck across and gone for the open left side.
A poke check would’ve been very good. But things happen fast and a poke check requires a fair deal of upper body movement, which Price may not have had time to do. I don’t know.

by Habs on Feb 19, 2009 2:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Absolutely fantastic goal, but I gotta ask James, where’s the post on Kiprusoff’s ridiculous save against Vancouver? East Coast bias? ;o)

by Resolute on Feb 19, 2009 3:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Email me the YouTube and I’ll check ’er out.

The Caps are always going to get a lot of love on the blogosphere given how many sites they have. Kent’s got the Kipper save up on his postgame thread.

by James Mirtle on Feb 19, 2009 4:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

heh, I’m just buggin. I’m sure you know how we love to rag on how the East ignores us/has gone to bed before anything happens out west. ;)

That was one slick goal by Ovechkin, though I’ve heard people call it the “goal of the millenium”, which is just patently ridiculous. Hell Phaneuf managed a one-handed, lift the puck over the goalie move that involved an end to end rush last year alone. This one was a bit better, but hardly the best I’ve seen from Ovechkin himself, let alone history.

by Resolute on Feb 20, 2009 11:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs