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On Friday, Comcast’s ‘Washington Post Live’ chimed in on Ovi’s 50th goal celebration, and once again graciously asked us to participate. These visits with Russ Thaler and his WPL production team are always a treat for us, and as we gear up for the postseason, look for the program to continue showcasing local hockey bloggers in roundtable fashion and continue broadening hockey coverage in Washington in the show’s typical quality fashion.

Reactions to Ovi’s 50th goal celebration as flying in fast and furious on hockey’s most popular blog — hundreds of them. The sound and the fury aligns really in just two camps: Sacre Bleu!, the celebration was an affront to all that is time-honored and revered in our great game (the one that never really has [...]

The occasion of Alexander Ovechkin’s 50th goal last night led Mike Vogel and Steve Kolbe on the game’s radio broadcast to reflect somewhat whimsically on a flight of extreme fantasy they’d heard bandied about the press earlier this season: could Ovi actually tally 1,000 goals in his career? I shook my head. A thousand? With [...]

A month ago, league-wide consensus was that Alexander Ovechkin was pretty much a lock to win another Hart Trophy. Today, perhaps not so much. Alex has done nothing wrong since, and his Hart candidacy remains stellar. But his countryman Geno in Pittsburgh is going to win the league scoring title, comfortably, and he more so [...]