Wow, that’s all I have to say about what happened tonight, in this rare hockey-filled Wednesday. (Good Ol’ American Thanksgiving, wouldn’t want to show any hockey while the entire US has a day off eh, Bettman?) Anyways! Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin just keep on rolling, and continue to amaze us.
Alex for his part, pretty much single-handedly beat the Thrashers tonight, rattling off a Hat trick, scoring on 50% of his shots, adding an assist, and his goals counted for two on the PP and his one that wasn’t on the PP just happened to be the Game Winner. I’d say that was successful outing.
Malkin on the other hand, decided that he didn’t feel like losing tonight. After the Pens go down two on a late in the second, (read: normally a momentum boost) he comes out and sets up some Crosby guy to pull within one, then says ‘ef this noise, and scores a natural hat trick, meanwhile registering on 75% of his shots. Take that Ovechkin.
I personally love this rivalry between these two superstars, but one has got to wonder what is going happen come 2010. Rumour has is, that there is no way they could agree to play with one another, so Russia might have to make due with only one of them. Which puts them in one helluva squeeze. First off, which guy do they pick and at the same time, which guy should they completely piss off to the point that he’ll probably never return to ‘Mother Russia’? Or do they just try to persuade them both to share a locker room and hope that their hate for each other doesn’t spread throughout. We all know how well that situation is working out in the Dallas locker room with Avery.
Honestly who knows, but I for one, cannot wait to see what will happen. I just wish that they would have been playing against eachother when they decided to pop off those hatties.
Hockey Talkie 
This could be the best rivalry in the league today. Never mind team vs team or Ovie v Crosby. Too bad they only play each other 4 times a year. For 2010 I believe that only one of them will play for Russia and I have a gut feeling that it will be Ovie. Malkin seems to be more of a Kovalev type player and personality and we all know that “Alex” as he likes to be called now is more north american maybe then any other Russian. I believe that he lives in North America during the off season and has not played for Russia since the last World Cup of Hockey. Plus Malkin is the one who had to “escape” from Russia to play for the Pens a couple of years ago. I don’t think that is going to help his chances any.
The best part of this rivalry is that I have them both in my hockey pool