With the season winding down, the talk of Most Valuable Player is really starting to heat up, and one of the favourites is clearly Alexander Ovechkin. My question however, is does he deserve it?
Yes, he leads the league in Points (102) and Goals (58), and has brought his Washington Capitals on the verge of making the post-season for the first time in years. (I can’t even remember the last time they made the dance.) He was named to the All-Star, and will no doubt be named to the First All-Star Team and is running away with the Maurice Richard Trophy, but will all this earn him the coveted Hart?
Whether it will or not is up is not up to me, but I don’t think it should. I have always firmly believed that if a player wins the Hart, he better get his team into play-offs, just like the Adams shouldn’t be given to a coach that doesn’t boss his team into play-offs.
There is no doubt that Ovie is one of the MVP’s of the NHL, otherwise there wouldn’t be any talk about it, but if he doesn’t lead the Caps into the post-season then he couldn’t have been that valuable, because otherwise why isn’t Lecavalier’s name being thrown in there? While his stats are quite a bit below Ovechkin’s, he is still 3rd in points (89) and 5th in goals (40).
I am in no way campaigning for Lecavalier to be named MVP, because realistically I don’t know who should be. I will think about it overnight, and maybe I’ll have an answer for it then, if I do I will post it tomorrow.
**UPDATE**
Alright, so its been almost 3 weeks since I wrote this, and since then the Washington Capitals have climbed in the rankings and took over the Southeast Division lead. So the Caps are in play-offs, and without a doubt, Ovie is going to win MVP. He is going to win the Hart, and it shouldn’t even be close. (April 7th, 2008)
Lecavalier doesn’t have 63 goals. If Lecavalier was not on a team probably there wouldn’t be much difference in the standing. Ok maybe Tampa Bay would have 10 points less. But with out Ovechkin Washington would be simply the worst team in NHL. No player had bigger impact on a team then Ovechkin. Crosby was out Pittsburgh still won. There is just nobody who has such effect on a team as Ovechkin does. Thats why he is MVP. He should not be penalize for having no help from his team. MVP stand for most valuable player and there is no player that is more valueable to his team then Ovechkin. You canadian recists should get over Ovehckin’s goal on Olympics.
First of all, I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that I am racist, because I have a firm belief that the MVP winner should at least be in play-offs.
In fact, I don’t even think you read the entire thing, so I pretty much going to disregard what you just said, because, well you clearly missed that I am saying the Lecavalier should not be MVP.
Besides… what’s says that I am not Russian?
Thanks for coming out though, and learn to spell “racists” before you use the word.
I don’t get hoe this is even a question OVECHKIN Has it in the bag datsyuk is surrounded by zetterburg and all of his redwings (yes he is an incredible player amd I really like his style of play) he was not the most valuable player even to the wings and malin is surrounded by cindy crysby and EVERYBODY ELSE and no shit they won the stanely cup look at their team if ovechkin doesn’t win the mvp 80percent of hockey fans will be disapointed
I don’t get hoe this is even a question OVECHKIN Has it in the bag datsyuk is surrounded by zetterburg and all of his redwings (yes he is an incredible player amd I really like his style of play) he was not the most valuable player even to the wings and malin is surrounded by cindy crysby and EVERYBODY ELSE and no shit they won the stanely cup look at their team if ovechkin doesn’t win the mvp 80percent of hockey fans will be disapointed OVECHKIN IS THE MOST SKILLED PLAYER WITH THE MOST HEART TO EVER PLAY ING THE NHL
ovechkin is the best player if they had a mvt award then the whole team gets it since they dont one man cant take whole team to playoffs so if hes still the most valuable then he wins it and ovie is