OVECHKIN!

"What, me worry?"

Tell me how ALexander Ovechhkin (Ovechicken to those who know and hate him), can go year-after-year trying to take peoples' heads off and accumulate the same number of PIMs as Sydney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin? It was suggested to me that the NHL "needs" him on the ice. Hmm, to kill whom?. Crosby and Malkin get their minutes basically on what I might categorize as non-violent penalties (hooking, holding, interference) and, for some reason, so does Ovechkin since his charging and boarding penalties go uncalled. So Ovechkin gets to stay on the ice because he's "needed" by the NHL and, so I guess then, Crosby and Malkin are not needed? Tell me how this "helps" the NHL. Makes sense to someone.

"Gary, you got a lotta 'splainin' to do!"

    

"Da!"