Month: December 2020

Why Alex Ovechkin Is Better Than Sidney Crosby                  Jayden

Mr. Ewert

Dec.9

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If you do not already know who these people are, they are pro hockey players who play in the NHL. Alex Ovechkin is a Russian who plays for the Washington Capitals. He is most well known for his one-timer slapshot that usually hovers around the 100-105 mph mark. Sidney Crosby is a Canadian who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He is most well known for his passing and he is really good at passing the puck into tight spaces.

The reason I like Alex more, is his playing style. He always tries to put the puck in the back of the net and help his team as much as possible. He has an insanely good shot, and he likes to lay big hits on people who skate with their head down. He is tough and does not let anyone knock him around.

Sidney on the other hand is more of a deker. I prefer shots over dekes any day. Crosby is cheap when he wants to go for the puck, he dives at the players feet and sweeps the puck away. I really don’t like his playing style.

One of the advantages that Alex has over Sidney is his one-timer slapshot and his shot in general. He takes a lot more shots and gets a lot more goals. Although Alex takes a lot of shots, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t pass. Alex has a career total of 706 goals and 572 assists to add up to a total of 1278 points! He is still quite a bit of points away from Gretzky’s record.

Sidney’s strength is his passing. He has really good edges which helps him in his passing so he can get passing lanes open to get the puck to his teammates. Sid has a total of 462 goals and 801 assists to add up to a total of 1263 points, only 15 less than Alex.

It is hard to judge who was better in their first years in the NHL, so I’ll have to say that it is a tie. Crosby was the named youngest captain ever, but then Connor McDavid took that title. Alex was also a really young captain and Alex and Sidney were both really good rookies.

They have both won so many trophies, so I won’t list them all. Some awards they have both won are the Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe, Rocket Richard and the Hart Memorial trophy. These are probably the most valuable awards you can be given in the NHL.

Both of their teams have been hovering around the top 5 teams in the league for the past few years and the best in their Metropolitan division. The Washington Capitals ended up in 5^th last year and The Pittsburgh Penguins ended up in 7^th. They both have really good teams to back them up, but they are by far the best players on their teams.

This is why Alex is better than Sidney. If you didn’t think that before, I’m sure you do now! Everybody thinks Alex is overrated but if you look at his stats, you will see that he is definitely a great player and deserves lots of credit for all the achievements he has reached.

Hello again, this week for my blog I will be telling you my predictions for the next season.

Right now what the plan is for the start of the brand new season is that they are targeting for January 1st. I have a feeling that it will be getting pushed back again unless they do the same thing as they did in the playoffs last year. They had a bubble and two host cities so the players would not be in contact with anyone at all. I really hope that it starts on the 1st because I really want to watch the Washington Capitals play.

My predictions for some awards this year are…

• Rocket Richard- Leon Draisaitel
• Calder-Alexis Lafreneire
• Conn Smythe- David Pasternak
• Vezina- Robin Lehner
• Hart Memorial- Connor McDavid

These are just some guesses that I think may happen.

I think the teams that will make it to the finals this year will be the Boston Bruins from the east. It pains me to say this because I hate them and they are my least favourite team but, they have such a good team with David Pasternak, Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, Tuukka Rask and many other good players. From the west I think it will be the Colorado Avalanche. They have such an amazing team with Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnion, Gabriel Landenskog, Mikko Rantanen and Nazem Kadri. I think the team that will actually win it will be the Colorado Avalanche.

I think that Alexis Lafreneire who was the first round draft pick by the New York Rangers will be a really good player that will put up a fair amount of points. I hope he does well because he was the key for the Canada junior teams gold medal last year.

That is the end of my blog and those were my predictions for the upcoming 2020-2021 NHL season. Here’s a link to the NHL website.https://www.nhl.com/

This week for my blog I will be telling you about another Canadian youtuber that does hockey videos for a living.

The person that I am talking about is Jeremy Rupke (Coach Jeremy). He does hockey review videos, training videos, best gifts for hockey players, videos with his family and much more. He is also a boss at a hockey company named Hockeyshot which makes training items for hockey players.

I really like his channel because he always breaks down drills and how to improve your hockey skills so they are super easy to understand. I m also really like that he features his son in a bunch of his videos, those videos are really funny and fun to watch. I really like that he does a variety of videos like I said earlier because it gets boring only watching the same type of video every time. He also makes his videos funny in different types of ways which makes me like them even more.

Jeremy Rupke has a boy whos name is Mason and makes some appearances into his videos, he is married.

He also sometimes does collaborations with other hockey youtubers such as Pavel Barber and Nasher. That is the end of my blog and here’s a link to his channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGB6MoY1PIuX5oHJSH9Cgg