DCist: Caps Briefing: Awards Night

DC1

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:36:07 -0500

crymeanicerink, Yeah -- and Gino still led the Pens in goals and points through three dominant playoff rounds (yes -- that's three times as many as Ovechkin's one) before playing injured through finals.

Eli Resnick

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:59:40 -0500

Evgeni, Yevgenei it's a russian name, so all spellings in phoenician scripts are compromises. In Pittsburgh they spell it "Gino." Thanks for keeping me honest.

sordid

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:57:28 -0500

Bruce should be coach of the year hands down. He ressurected the team in half a season, no one has ever gon worst to first in that short amount of time. If people don't recognize that, they're retards.

crymeanicerink

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:25:58 -0500

Yes, Malkin stepped up during Crosby's absence - but where was he before that? Ovechkin has had an amazing season - not only leading in goals and points, but being a major part of the team's turnaround. He's not the only part of that (Boudreau, Huet, Backstrom, and Mike Green also helped) but let's remember that the Caps were in last place in Thanksgiving, and came through to win the Division in a fantastic end-of-season run.

timtheviking2

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:23:25 -0500

Whatever. Ovie gets all the press, but Boudreau has put together quite the ensemble, as evidenced by the stellar contributions from Backstrom and Semin that got us into that Game 7 that we almost won, even when Ovechkin had hit an unfortunately-timed slump.

gesture

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:16:28 -0500

It's Evgeni, not Evgenei. Though Malkin had a less than stellar run in the Stanley Cup finals, his amazing season (and the talents of Ty Conklin, backup goaltender for the similarly injured Marc-Andre Fleury) were the catalysts for getting the Penguins into playoff position. A.O. will win because he's still really the only thing the Capitals have going, except for maybe Huet (if they don't lose him to free agency). Let's go Pens!

DC1

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:39:06 -0500

Malkin can hardly be said to be the most valuable player on a team with reigning MVP Sidney Crosby You mean the same Crosby who missed 1/4 of the season, including 6 weeks of the stretch drive, with a high ankle sprain? 6 points separated Malkin and Ovechkin -- one lead his team to the finals and the other a round one exit. I'd vote for Ovechkin, but not by much.