Last week we reported that seven guys who played for the Capitals this year are now tearing up the American Hockey League playoffs with the Hershey Bears. Over the weekend, the Bears beat the evil Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins two more times, taking a 3-0 lead in the best of seven East Division Final series. The Bears weren’t the only Capitals beating up on less talented players, though.

Alex Ovechkin spends his summer vacations playing in the World Championship of Hockey, a tournament sponsored by European leagues to showcase the best hockey players in the world who couldn’t make the NHL playoffs. Everybody makes the NHL Playoffs. In this tournament of tiddlywinks, the Kharlamov Trophy winner did what any self-respecting hockey player would do in a relaxed, meaningless scrimmage: he tried to kill the worst bush-league player out there.

In a stunning coincidence, the player Ovechkin brained is actually named Valentin Wirz (pronounced “worsht”) and really plays Busch Hockey. Of course, this isn’t to say that he isn’t a great Swiss hockey player. Only that it’s hard to tell why Ovechkin would give him the time of day, let alone take the time to brain him.