Photo: Geoff Burke
This offseason felt particularly long, so I smiled extra wide on Thursday as I watched Alex Ovechkin crush Montreal Canadiens left and right. While Ovechkin didn’t score in the shootout loss, he did finish the night with six hits, tied with Brooks Orpik for the most among all skaters.
My favorite hit was Ovechkin leveling left wing Jiri Sekac. The Czech was playing in just his second career NHL game. This had to hurt.
Ovechkin also knocked over scrappy forward Brendan Gallagher because he was just there and sometimes it feels nice to just rack someone in open ice.
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Hockey is back and as violent as ever.
