SaucyJack

Can I relax and watch some US Open Tennis without the cameraman always showing Daniil Medvedev’s coach and his f*%#-ing annoying cap ?!?

The real score: Howe: 975 Gretzky: 940 Hull: 913 Ovechkin: 853* * rookie season delayed 1 year by 2004-05 lost season (lockout) It’s fair to say that Ovi would have scored roughly 40 goals if 04-05 season had occurred, thus putting him at 893. (82 shy of Howe’s combined NHL/WHA regular season goals. One wonders how much higher Howe’s career totals would have been, though, had he played the 71-72 and 72-73 seasons.)

Agree RE: Crosby vs Ovenchicken. I’m sure they struggled between Michael Phelps and Serena Williams for #1 vs #2. I’d have put Serena #1. Men’s Tennis: Fed over the Djoker? Got that one wrong. Athlete or sportsman? I have troubles considering those who are displaying primarily anaerobic skills (golfers, auto racers, and to an extent, quarterbacks) as ‘athletes’ in the fullest sense. (Not to denigrate the need for them to maintain their shape, especially back and waist muscles. You could put bowlers in the same category. And to a degree, many bat&ball sportsmen - baseball and cricket.)

Gretzky says “you’d be chasin’ 1072 if they counted my WHA goals. And maybe more, we need to check Gordie’s and Bobby’s totals.”

Is there blame on 1970’s NHL bigwigs for not allowing WHA accomplishments in career NHL stats? (E.g., affecting total goals for Howe, Gretzky, Hull.)

Nice to see the staying power of the 1982 Capitals draft pick. (He’s come a long ways from Flin Flon Manitoba!)

I’d have thought the WaPo would put out a blurb on this game (being OviTown) but not yet anyway. Ovi is declared player of the game in this light-effort charity exhibition, scoring 1st goal (in 1st minute) of the 8-8 tie. (But flukey; snipes the right post, hits KHLer’s skate above the crease, deflects into the goal. No report that he scored again.) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKAkN5LZWK8&pp=ygUKa0hMIHZzIG5obA%3D%3D Russia trying to feel good and normal.

Oh no, Jakub Vrána! Win a Cup at age 22 with the Caps, still only 28, and…and…and…none of the other kids have picked you yet! So forlorn, just standing there, how times change…

Agree. Dylan Strome has only played two seasons for the Capitals, for starters but also, Carlson’s +/- is considerably better. (He is +86 career-wise, despite often looking like a defensive liability. Hmmm.) —> But what I found more interesting and revealing is that Sidney Crosby is still considered the best Penguin, whereas Ovechkin is not considered the best Capital. Both rookies in 05-06, it adds to Crosby being the overall better career player, FAR better +/- and FAR better playoffs performer over these past 19 seasons.

4. Washington Capitals: This was a team I was thinking of maybe, possibly putting at #3 (I wrote an entire 350 words on it and then realised I didn’t fully agree with myself) There is no reason to fret or fear. It has been common since the late 1980’s for perfectly nice, ordinary people, of regular sound mind, to start blubbering to themselves about the Capitals, in oft-schizophrenic and/or incoherent fashion, to the point of not knowing up from down, east from west, all compasses confounded. All quite normal, really, “nothing to see here” sort of thing. Cheerio, then, ttfn…

Another late season crapshoot for the final spots. Maybe fifth place here in the Atlantic edges out the Isles and Caps in the Metro.

I at least want to know how many goals the KHLers (now with Kuznetsov?) score due to boneheaded lazy play by Ovechkin.

Kuzy and his 2018 second round game 6 OT winner…ending the Penguins Curse

Is NHL Capitals & NBA Wee Zards owner Ted Leonsis really getting anything out of this purchase? Do other franchises seriously not have this information in some other form? Online, even Capitals fans are not feeling very warm these days to their owner. Qatari investment, bullying local authorities for tax breaks with efforts to move (which of course backfired), some may not like the Sportsbook in the arena, and now this CapFriendly stuff. (Not very “Caps Friendly” is he? ) OK I deserve to sit in the corner after that! But before I do, be aware that many are so discombobulated online that they are getting our owner’s first name wrong: - some think it is “Richard” per the shorter nickname of it they use -some think it is “Curt” but seem to always get the 3rd letter wrong. OK, corner time.