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To put this video into its proper context (which the maker of that video apparently wasn’t willing to do): The fans had been booing Ovechkin (and hollering a few death threats at him as well, no doubt) from the moment the puck dropped. Briere flagrantly speared Ovechkin in the nards–and naturally, there was no call–and Ovechkin of course stood up for himself…which got the crowd even angrier, because how dare somebody stand up for himself when he gets speared by one of The Glorious Buffalo Sabres?! So Ovechkin went and scored, and performed the gesture you see in that video there.
Good on Ovechkin. Too bad the Capitals weren’t winning at the time, because that would have made it even better–and considering the fact that more than a few fans on various Sabres message boards were calling for the death (or at least the career-ending injury) of Aleksandr Balshoii, I really consider their calling that gesture “classless” to be quite ironic. Kinda like Da Chief asking Wings fans not to boo Sergei Fedorov when the Smoking Jackets come to play at the Nexus of Evil.
And to reheat a previous post;
Scott Nichol received a hip injury in the Predators’ game vs. the Sabres–you know, the one where he got nine games for sucker-punching Jaroslav Spacek after Spacek (who apparently hasn’t changed a bit from when he was cheap-shotting guys as a Florida Panther) rode him hard into the side of the net. So Spacek gets off scot-free for a flagrant attempt to injure, and Nichol gets painted as Todd Bertuzzi v2.0 by SabresNation. Must be nice, huh?
Sheesh.
Couldn’t agree more, but that’s probably not a surprise…that little shot to the groin was so obnoxious I couldn’t believe it. Made that little gesture by Ovie after he scored that much more delicious!
By the way, did you know that you’re quoted in ESPN Magazine’s 100 sports moments of the year? It’s in the thing about Yzerman retiring.
(Not that I make it a practice to read anything ESPN writes, but I have a free trial subscription for another month or two…)
By the way, did you know that you’re quoted in ESPN Magazine’s 100 sports moments of the year? It’s in the thing about Yzerman retiring.
I heard about that–quoted next to Gordie Howe, no less!
I loathe Bristol, but I highly respect Mr. Hockey so I’ll take it for the honor that it is.
He put his hand to his mouth and then cups his ear? Am I missing something? If i was him and on the road with them booing me, I would do the same thing.. “Yeaah… lemme hear ya boo now”… How is that classless? lol..
Colin Campbell is a clownshoe.
first of all dont you mean brian campbell.
well im glad for hockey that you have some passion because us northeast fans are still under the impression that you really dont know the game yet and your just on a team bandwagon. so before you go all crazy, i agree with most of the comments im glad Brieres in philly and spacek is a piece, but now you are talking about my man adam mair. i could rip off some many reason why you suck i hate you whatever, he is our Kevyn Adams, and dont even tell me your not going to miss him, that finely groomed western new yorker
Hello, and welcome to LAST FREAKING SEASON.
Wow, and just when I thought Buffalo fans couldn’t be any dumber.
Do your testicles feel like they’ve descended yet, now that you’ve shown what a man you are by flaming somebody eight months after the fact?
Just curious–and by the way, I did mean Colin Campbell. You know, the guy responsible for handing out suspensions and stuff?
Boy, and you have the bollocks to call us ign’ant.