Rose is back and the show kicks off celebrating Alexander Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal scoring record with his 895th goal last Sunday against the New York Islanders. Roy, David and Ethan discuss how much Ovechkin has left in the tank and where he ranks among the all-time greats after breaking the record. Plus, the boys give their wins and fails of the week including a shocking comeback from the Vancouver Canucks, David's kid playing on the ice at a Panthers game, and a whole lot of laughing at the New York Islanders. Then, LA Kings color commentator, Jim Fox, joins the show to discuss yet another Kings/Oilers matchup in the Playoffs, whether or not the Playoff format should be changed, and his illustrious acting career. Finally, the guys discuss the week that was for the Panthers including two massive wins over the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings and David has an update on Matthew Tkachuk's recovery status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Alexander Ovechkin and what record did he break?
Center. Send in Wilson on the flank. Cross ice. Ovechkin fires. Score! The chasing days are done. Alex Ovechkin is the greatest goal scorer in the history of the NHL.
We have ourselves a new goalscoring king in the National Hockey League. Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork is right there. In the shipping container is Rose and Ethan. Welcome back, Rosie. Full house. We got everybody back. It's a great thing.
Family's back together.
All right. So let's just start off by saying how great this guy is who just broke this record, right? Alexander Ovechkin. The great eight. Now, the guy right now has the body of David Wells. He's plump. Just straight up. I thought you were just going to say David.
David Wells making me smile, Roy. Thank you for pulling that out this morning. You're absolutely welcome.
The man did throw a no-hitter, hungover. Yeah, he did. I'm sure Overskin just broke the record of hungover. You never know.
Wait, so he took Ned's record? Yes.
David Wells threw a perfect game.
Yes, he took Ned's record.
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Chapter 2: What are Alexander Ovechkin's career achievements and stats?
Why?
Because of the assists.
Because of his assists. He has more assists than any other player has points.
Oh.
Yeah, Ned Gretzky was really good. David Wells threw a perfect game, by the way. Oh, yeah.
I said no hitter. We don't talk about baseball. We talk about hockey. 895 goals now for Alexander Ovechkin. You're the one that brought up David Wells. I brought it up. I didn't know you were going to continue with the point. You bring up David Wells. You know how the attention deficit thing works with the show, right? You bring up David Wells, we get excited.
You send Rose and I on a tangent, we're gone. Gosh, I mean, look at pitches. I mean, in his 20-year career, he has an 82-game average of 49 goals per season. That's crazy. That's crazy. He has league records in power play goals for 325, game-winning goals of 136, shots on goal, 6,852. Seven million.
Yeah, seven million.
Seven million shots on goal. Calder Trophy winner, three-time Hart winner, three-time Ted Lindsey Award winner, That's MVP for the players there, voted by the players. Conn's my trophy winner when the Capitals won the Stanley Cup in 2018. He's led the league in goals nine times, led the league in points in 2008, and will be a first ballot Hall of Famer as soon as he hangs up his skates.
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Chapter 3: How did the Florida Panthers and NHL draft nearly involve Ovechkin?
Honestly, brilliant. It was a brilliant play.
I love the Panthers, but they found loopholes, but they're legal. They're just intelligent for me.
You're talking about long-term IR now?
I don't know, but they're intelligent.
Rose is okay with cap circumvention. That's the translation that I just got from that. Yeah. Congratulations, Rose.
You are now one of the bad guys, I guess.
These season-by-season goal totals for Ovechkin are absolutely insane.
He's only had one season where he's had under 30 goals.
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Chapter 4: How much longer can Ovechkin play at a top level?
Yeah. You know, he had a kind of a dip from 2010 to 2013 where he went a dip, quote unquote, where he went 32, 38, 32. And then he responded with 51, 53, 50. He scored 52 in his rookie year. He scored 65 in his third year in the league. He's got a 56, a 50, 51 in here, some 48, some 49s. And at the age of 39, he's got 42 in 62 games. It's absolutely absurd. Yeah.
The year he scored 24 goals, by the way, was the lockout year where they only played 45 games. No, that's the COVID year.
Then he also has a lockout year where they only played a certain amount of games. 48 games in 2012-13.
Yeah, so he scored 32.
So he could have done this a long time ago if it weren't for COVID and the lockout. He probably could have done this three or four years ago, which is insane to think. But it kind of was fitting because he ended up scoring, tying Gretzky in one less game than Gretzky broke the record or set the record in. Right. Yeah.
How much gas is left in his tank? You think that's it? No, I think he's probably got another couple of years left. Yeah. Why not? The guy, what, he break his leg this year and he still scored 40 goals? Yeah. He's okay. He might have David Wells' body, but underneath that dad bod exterior is a champion. The heart of a lion. I don't want him to retire anytime soon. And I don't think he should.
All right, so he's got another year or two left in him, according to David. Keep pumping those Bud Lights, dude. Let's go. Let's go to the... Miller Lights, actually.
Yeah, whatever it is. Miller Lights, because they are... Keep pumping the light beer.
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Chapter 5: What are the wins and fails of the week discussed on the show?
Keep pumping the cold, cold, cold.
Yeah. Keep pumping that Jagermeister.
Chapter 6: What are the highlights of David's family hockey moments?
Do you feel the same way, Ethan?
Yeah, I think he's got at least another year. I think he's going to go for 900. And I don't know that he'll get to 1,000, but he's certainly going to see how many he can get before he feels like. I think next year is the last year of his contract, so we'll see how he feels after next year. But he's at least got one more in him for sure. All right.
Okay, we're going to go to our wins and our fails.
Can I do the show? Can I do the show as I was about to adjust to what you were doing?
Tell me. Tell me.
I love you guys. This is fun. We're back. This is fun.
Yes. Go Roy. Now. We don't have much time.
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Chapter 7: What are some notable wins including Ovechkin’s home practice celebration?
Because if we don't, then we're in big trouble if we don't.
Well, let's go to win.
Yes. That's what I'm about to do. Thank you.
David? Yes. My win of the week. My win of the week. So on the hockey show. We've celebrated growing the game of hockey, both big picture and in our own families. Princess Claire has started her journey to becoming the next PWHL player.
My son has been playing in the Panthers development lead for the first time this year, and last night he got to play on the Panthers ice during one of the intermissions. And to say it was maybe the proudest of Proud Papa moments I've had up until now is a bit of an understatement. It was really cool. I was actually on the ice with him. I got to stand there as he came onto the ice.
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Chapter 8: What are the major fails of the week including NHL teams' performances?
We're seeing pictures of it right now. He had this huge smile on his face. It was just an awesome, awesome moment, and I'm happy that I can share it with you guys. Just very cool, man.
That's fantastic. I mean, that's a moment that you're not going to forget there for your child to play on actual National League ice. Yeah. That's very special. So good for you. Man, that kind of makes me... Kind of makes me proud, even though that's not even my kid.
Knowing him since he was born, I mean. Yeah.
That's awesome. Yeah. All right, my win of the week goes to the celebration of Alexander Obrashkin. This time, he went home. This is from the first home practice. As he's walking out, it was an open practice. Everybody was there. They were chanting Ovi's name. Ovi. Ovi has actually sound to it. But yeah, it was pretty cool seeing everybody celebrating him as he went home.
Ovi. Ovi.
That's exactly what happened there. And Obi actually did the celebration that he did when he broke the record.
I read, I don't know if this was accurate, but I read that they had exactly 895 fans for that practice. Wow. They had maximum tickets for it. Well, for the goals, right? Yeah. So I don't know if that was accurate. I guess I probably should have looked it up before bringing it up. But either way, just very cool.
Also, it was a good week for him. It was also a good week for Project Pat and Juicy J, because as you know, Ovechkin likes to sing bands to make a dance before they go out into the ice. The Capitals gifted both Project Pat and Juicy J, who made that song. Late 90s, early 1000s era jerseys. That's a good touch. That's very nice. And Juicy J posted on his Twitter account. And yeah, those look good.
Those look real good. So good for them. Ethan.
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