Sometime tomorrow the Philadelphia Flyers will gather in front of a TV screen and review video from Wednesday’s game against the Washington Capitals, and in that meeting someone will freeze frame Alex Ovechkin standing all alone in front of the Flyers net with the puck, and then someone will say, “what is wrong with this picture?”
Anyway, Alex Ovechkin’s got 46 goals now.
Alex Ovechkin, as we all know, was grown in a vat somewhere deep underground in the Soviet Union for the sole purpose of scoring playoff goals.
Early into Game Four, Ovi did what Ovi does.
Everybody, please welcome Alex Ovechkin to the 2017 playoffs. In the second period of the second game of the first round, Ovi booked a cruise to Ovi Island, where not a single Leaf could be found.
Cue the pass. Cue the goal.
The Arizona Coyotes utilized a bold penalty-killing strategy in the first period. Stacking all four of their penalty killers to the right side of the ice, the Coyotes left Alex Ovechkin, one of the greatest power-play goal-scorers of all-time, wide open in his office. Ovechkin was given the entire left half of the ice to operate.
He scored. Easily. I call it: Ovechkin Island.
