In the off-season, the rookie draft has already taken place and the open free agency market is past the peak of signings, but before the teams’ training camps open, the time for any challenge is still quite far away. ratings abroad.
So the official portal of the National Hockey League gave graduations in each role and resonated with the fact that Alexander Ovechkin, captain of the Washington Capitals and the best sniper of our time, did not enter the top 10. Further.
But that’s not all. According to the Puc Empire portal, Ovi took only 34th place in the ranking of all players in the strongest league in the world.
Alexander the Great’s place in the ranks caused heated debate and a wave of anger in the ocean. Not just Washington, experts and fans agreed that the Russian’s place in the Puck Empire rating is disrespectful to the honored hockey player.
“It’s just humiliating that Ovechkin didn’t make the Top 5,” said Back Sports Page reporter Cecil.
With the rating of the official portal of the league, the situation is somewhat different. There they not only chose the best players, but also made a choice to play Fantasy, where each participant received hockey players for the team and earned him points with their actions in the matches.
But even in this case, it seems odd that Ovi takes 11th place among attackers, as last season the sniper scored 90 (50 + 40) points in 77 games and finished the regular season with a +8 utility indicator, the previous two seasons were negative) .
Yes, Ovechkin will turn 37 in September and he is not getting any younger. However, he was eliminated many times and the drop in the game was perceived as the beginning of the sunset. But right now there is no recession.
The striker looked like he had found a second junior as he changed his diet and training prior to the 2017/18 season. Moreover, the result was immediate and Washington won the first long-awaited Stanley Cup in the club’s history in this campaign.
But the player’s personal indicators are even clearer. Thus, in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 championships, he failed to reach an average of 69 (33 + 36) points per game in 82 games of the 16/17 season, which seemed like good numbers for an aging star.
In the later shortened seasons, he scored 87 (49+38) in 82 games, 89 (51+38) in 81, 67 (48+19) in 68 and 42 (24+18) in 44th.
Yet last summer, former 2-meter tough guy John Scott, who played against Ovi in Chicago and other clubs, said that Alexander the Great could no longer score more than 30 goals in a season, which is why he’s after. Wayne Gretzky and the title of best sniper in NHL history are doomed to fail.
Well, the Russian responded with their highest scoring season in 13 years, scoring 90 points in 77 games and dropping fifty dollars. He scored more points in only his first five campaigns in the world’s strongest league.
However, experts on the league’s official website believe he is not in the top ten selection as a forward for Fantasy.
Yes, there are stars ahead, but Sidney Crosby, the same Pittsburgh captain to whom Alexander the Great has been compared throughout his career, scored fewer points last season and most importantly missed more games due to injuries.
Ovechkin’s health was also not shown by Mikko Rantanen and Alexander Barkov, who won conferences with Colorado and Florida. And both were recruited at approximately the level of Alexander.
Above Ovi were the Russians Kirill Kaprizov and Nikita Kucherov. In terms of average performance, both were ahead of their compatriots, but the same Kucherov again played only 47 matches, as he was treated very well.
In any case, the captain of the Capitals is not the first to embarrass skeptics and destroy stereotypes. It’s even safe to say that such ratings would be an additional motivation for him.
Although Ovi’s original mission is different now. He continues to chase Gretzky’s record and promises to be a long record, but Gordie Howe, who is second in league history in goals, is only 21 goals away.
Oleksandr has just ten goals to go for 500 goals in even comps in regular NHL championships, and with his next hit on the winning goals, he will pass Gordie Howe and finish second alone behind Jaromir Jagr.
And, of course, the striker is not at all against winning the Stanley Cup for the second time, and although Washington does not seem to be one of the main contenders, he is definitely listed in the group of cup contenders.