Soy Capitan! Soy Capitan!

April 27, 2010 by quovechkin

Brace yourself…we’re feeling discursive.  

It’s been quite a day.  Sandwiched between two high pressure days.  Game 6 was last night.  It should have been the game that ended the series, but by some evil miracle, Halak became a Jedi master (maybe Sith lord would be a better comparison) and impressively blocked all but 1 of the Caps’ booming 54 shots.  Game 7 is tomorrow night…the game that decides our fate and determines whether our boys go on to Stanley Cup glory (ok, it’s not the game that decides that, but we can’t get there without it!) or hit the links and come back fighting in September.  None of us wanted to see another game 7, but it’s time to suck it up and stop whining.  We’re there.  Now it’s time to focus.  What better to focus on in the next 22 hours than the man who, more than anyone else out there, wants to have Lord Stanley come to dinner. Alexander the Great.  Our captain.  He may have had a low key start to the series, but he has come back strong and Team Quovechkin thinks he is going to explode onto the ice tomorrow night.  Ovie is going to lead his men into battle and they are prepared for it.  

Enough about TQ’s opinions.  Let’s revisit a night back in January, the 5th, to be exact, when Ovie first took the ice as captain.  When asked about what the Great 8’s role would be as captain, Boudreau responded, “Ovie’s taking care of the ice. That’s what Ovie’s going to do.” (From Yahoo! Sports on January 5, 2010) Boudreau and McPhee had chosen their man, but Ovechkin wouldn’t accept this role unless the rest of the guys wanted him to lead them.  It was unanimous.  This extraordinary team chose to be led by this extraordinary man and he led them through the rest of a magnificent (you thought I was going to say extraordinary, didn’t you) 121 point regular season during which a number of team and individual milestones were reached.  As GMGM explained, “Our team has adopted [Ovechkin’s] personality and the energy, passion, and drive to win that are his hallmarks have become our team’s as well.  He sets the tone - on the ice as well as off.” (From the Washington Examiner on January 6, 2010)

That Tuesday night, the Caps ended a 3 game losing streak by defeating the Montreal Canadiens on Verizon Center ice (we won’t mention that it was a point-free game for Ovie - oops, we mentioned it - but we WILL mention that SEMIN SCORED TWICE…come on, Sasha!!).  Tomorrow night, let’s take a deep breath and put our faith in our captain to lead our guys into battle once more…to end the 2 game losing streak by defeating the Montreal Canadiens on Verizon Center ice.  

Take care of that ice, Ovie.  

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