Who's sick of Crosby? I am! I am!

On Saturday, I noticed that someone from Williamstown, New Jersey found my blog via this Google search:

i'm tired of hearing about sidney crosby

Me too, brother, me too. Unfortunately, we'll probably have to hear about him for a while. But isn't it nice for Caps fans that it took him longer than Ovechkin to get his first career hat trick- like, 9 months after Ovie first did it? Of course, the hype over Crosby doing it is much more than when Ovechkin did it. C'est la vie.

Ovechkin's busy on his Canadian Goodwill Victory Tour. I'm all for goodwill, but I'd like to see more victory. That being said, I thought the Caps did very well against Vancouver the other night, getting a point when SOME PEOPLE didn't expect them to even show. The game against Edmonton's a different story...but I didn't see it, so can't make any judgments on that one.

Anyway, the Canadian media has been going gaga over Ovie (courtesy to Dan Steinberg, who posted the links on his Bog this morning). I just about peed my pants when I read this:

McPhee chose Ovechkin over Russian countrymen Evgeni Malkin when the Capitals picked first in the 2004 draft, and anyone who covered it in Raleigh could see why. Ovechkin refused a translator and told reporters in broken English how he'd always dreamed of playing in the NHL and couldn't wait to cross the Atlantic. Reserved and stoic, Malkin spoke only through a translator and looked left over from the Cold War, as if he couldn't wait for interviews to end so he could rush off to buy pantyhose and Duran Duran CDs.

The Washington Times had good things to say as well:

Ovechkin was called for diving, a hugely embarrassing moment for any athlete. He hung his head, muttered a few choice words (no doubt in Russian) and skated to the penalty box. No whining, no attempt to humiliate the officials. "That's the difference between Ovechkin and [Pittsburgh's Sidney] Crosby," said a Canadian who was at the game but asked not to be identified. "Crosby would have whined about that, turned it into a miniseries. Canadians won't put up with that kind of attitude."

So why do they? That's what I'd like to know. If I see one more of those damn ads with Crosby in the shower- ugh. Who was the marketing moron who came up with that idiotic idea?

And how about this one, from the Calgary Sun?

"I didn't notice him in practice," [Jeff] Friesen said before adding with a chuckle, "Let's say he's not the best practice player I've ever played with. I don't know if he hits the net in practice."

Um, Friesen is definitely not one to be throwing stones. So what if Ovechkin doesn't turn it on in practice as much- he turns it on when it counts, which is more than one can say for Friesen. What a dud.