With every day that passes...

...I hate Sidney Crosby more. You call that a fight? Especially when he
troed to act like he was sending a message. Ugh. I didn't know I could
hate him anymore than I did last year.



Also, ALex ovechkin is really starting to impres me. May be the best
player in the country next to Pavel Datsyuk<3. Doesn't matter anyways,
Wings are just too good to be denied, even if the analysts continue to
spite us.

Sorry, if this shows up poorly, trying to type on the iPod.

usafpilot07 wrote: ...I hate Sidney Crosby more. You call that a fight? Especially when he troed to act like he was sending a message. Ugh. I didn't know I could hate him anymore than I did last year. Also, ALex ovechkin is really starting to impres me. May be the best player in the country. Sorry, if this shows up poorly, trying to type on the iPod.

I'd agree fully if you'd stopped where I did in the quote.

Crosby is the embodiment of where hockey can go wrong. Ovechkin is the embodiment of where it can go so very right.

The Pens screwed the pooch when they hung their hopes on a boy with a pansy-ass first name... Sydney... That's a GIRL'S name!

Malkin I have to give props to, but Crosby is, was, and always will be nothing more than a mediocre player with good PR.

I also hate the fans that stuffed the ballot boxes this year for the all-star game. I hope this is the last year that the NHL allows online voting.

USAF is using Google Chrome.

theres a jock strap hanging in Minnesota

bullseye, i grew up with eric staal. i don't play but all my friends did, and played with him. and he married friend from highschool

Waaaaaa.

pntbl freak wrote: Hockey?

Do they still have hockey anymore?

Boss_DJ wrote: sidney crosby is THE best hockey player in the past decade and will be remembered as one of the greats at the end of his career...he deserves every amount of hype that that is generated around him...everyone can hate on him all you want but the nhl hasnt seen a player with his caliber and hockey sense in a long long time...gretzky had to deal with harsh criticism too, most of the same critisms given to crosby today, they called him a whiner and a wuss too

Have you seen Crosby's numbers put up next to Gretzkys?
Laughable.

I am certainly a Penguins fan, and I get sick of the Crosby bashing.

Making fun of his name, Tallen? Really?? In a league with a lot of Europeans with really odd names, I can't see how any hockey fan could make fun of a player's name. That's just childish.

They used to say he was soft, now he's been in a few fights and scrums, and he's called a cheapshot artist. He is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.

I simply cannot see how anyone could say he's not one of the elite players in the NHL. The numbers speak for themselves. He's already got an Art Ross trophy and a Hart Trophy. What is the deal, where you can only respect Crosby or AO?

I don't like the Capitals, but I can't say that AO sucks. He's obviously another one of the better players in the league. But lets face it, AO isn't going to be the "face of the NHL", at least until he can learn to speak English well enough that a non-NHL fan would be able to understand what he says.

And if you wanna bring up a candyass hockey fight that happened yesterday, I gotta bring up Tallen's boy Alexander Semin and his "fight" last night.

Fighting etiquette in the NHL says that you aren't to pull the opponent's sweater over their head. Crosby is a cheap shot artist for doing so as was Staal. If you saw Staal's face in the penalty box after that tussle, the entire side of his face was bruised from Semin going full-auto on him while he was on the ice. Furthermore, Semin has been out with major injuries for a good chunk of the season, I can't blame him for beating the **** out of Staal's face while he was down on the ice the way he did. Staal tried to cheap-shot him and Semin struck back the best he could given the situation.

There's more than enough room to say that Ovechkin isn't the only great player in the NHL. I'll tell you straight up that Malkin is the effing MAN. But Crosby is over-hyped, under skilled, and making fun of Ovechkin's command of the English language is about as puerile as me making fun of Crosby having a girl's name (which he does).

Crosby's a flash in the pan. Nothing more, nothing less. Is he a good player? Yes, but no more so than any number of other players in the league. He certainly isn't taking home 4 trophies in one season while setting NHL records his first few seasons in.

It's alright to be all pissy when people start bashing on your "star" player. It's just too bad that you seem to think he's better than he really is.

Yes, I'm a Caps fan, yes I think Ovi is great. But I also know that my team has one of the best and hardest working crews out there. If we didn't, we wouldn't be 4th in the league and only 2 points behind last year's Stanley Cup winners. That's not to say that Ovechkin isn't a huge part of where we're at right now. He scores goals and wins games. He also is the locomotive that drives the freight train that is the Capitals. Ovi gets the team fired up and keeps the energy high. Until Crosby can start setting that kind of a pace for the Pens to follow, he can't be compared to the other "golden boy" of the NHL.