Alexander Ovechkin or Sidney Crosby? That has become the great debate that many around the NHL have been arguing over for the past 4 to 5 years now.However when it comes to the best player in hockey these days I feel it's no competition.
The one player I'd want on my team if I were a general manager in the NHL would be the most dominating player in hockey, Alexander Ovechkin.
Who wouldn't want a player who can go out everynight and expecting him to score two goals a game. So far this season Ovechkin hasn't dissappointed and gotten me right back into a hockey mood. In just three games Ovechkin has 5 goals, 4 assists, and is a plus-6.
There is a reason Ovechkin has won the Hart Trophy for Most Valuable Player the past two seasons. He single handedly makes the Washington Capitals a better team, and as he showed in the playoffs, he can carry them pretty far.
This is where most people say Sidney Crosby is better, especially after the Penguins won the Stanley Cup last season and knocking off Ovechkin's Capitals in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. And this brings up the agruement that Crosby is a better player because he makes the players around him better.
Yet, undoubtabley the Penguins in general just had a better team, better players and a stable goalie situation and the Capitals and Ovechkin still took the Penguins to game seven.
You can't be successful in the NHL playoffs when you're not clear on who your starting goalie is and that's what one of the Capitals issues were, flip-flopping inbetween Jose Theodore and Semyon Varlamov. While the Penguins had a guy in net who they drafted in the first round as their franchise goaltender in Marc-Andre Fleury.
Don't forget about Evgeni Malkin as well, who in his own right could fight for the title of NHL's best player, while the Ovechkin's best teammate is defenseman Mike Green.
Will anyone give Ovechkin some credit? I know I will. If I ever got the chance to choose either Crosby or Ovechkin for my team, always give me Ovie.
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