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The Ovie 800

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alta:
I think the bigger question is does he achieve 800 in a Caps sweater. When his current is up, will he stay here or will he bounce around like jäger has done? Money obviously isn't an issue(for his great grand kids), does he sign an extension for $1M a year so there's cap space to get some quality Dmen?

BlackIce:
Ovie will get 700 in a Caps sweater (barring serious injury), but not 800.  Do not lose sight of the fact that his contract ends on July 1, 2021, 7 months before the next winter Olympics.  I fully expect that he will not sign another NHL contract, at least right away, but instead return to Russia so he can have one more chance to play in the Olympics.  What his contract status is if he were to do that and sit out an NHL season, I do not know.  Maybe he'd be happy to play in the KHL for a few years afterward.


For SURE he doesn't sign a $1 million contract were he to return.  $6 million, maybe -- not $1 million (as long as he continues to score enough to be viewed as still a dominant NHL player.)

BarfingMonkey:

--- Quote from: BlackIce on Wednesday February 13, 2019, 01:43:03 PM Eastern ---Ovie will get 700 in a Caps sweater (barring serious injury), but not 800.  Do not lose sight of the fact that his contract ends on July 1, 2021, 7 months before the next winter Olympics.  I fully expect that he will not sign another NHL contract, at least right away, but instead return to Russia so he can have one more chance to play in the Olympics.  What his contract status is if he were to do that and sit out an NHL season, I do not know.  Maybe he'd be happy to play in the KHL for a few years afterward.


For SURE he doesn't sign a $1 million contract were he to return.  $6 million, maybe -- not $1 million (as long as he continues to score enough to be viewed as still a dominant NHL player.)

--- End quote ---


I'll be sad.

zerofox:
I'd love to see Ovi get 800+ and end up at least 2nd on the all-time goals list, AND get a bunch more Cups. But it's clear that the Capitals organization doesn't want more Cups. It isn't that they don't feel like Cups are a priority, it's that they simply DO NOT WANT more Cups. It's like another Cup would cause financial ruin to the team, so they are avoiding it like the plague.


Ted's motto is "READ MY LIPS: NO NEW CUPS" and to achieve that goal, they let go of the first Caps coach in history to win us a Cup, and hired an invalid to run the show.

zerofox:
He's on pace for 55 or so but I think he falls a bit shorter than that, just given how he seems to have cooled off a bit and given how a bunch of his goals were from multiple hat tricks (which I probably wouldn't expect him to get a bunch more hat tricks) and given that he's playing with a bunch of a retards led by a retard coach. I just hope he reaches 50+ and gets another Rocket. Would be a nice extra feather in his cap especially considering the organization's desires to not win Cups anymore. More goals is basically a consolation prize.


I say he needs 13 more goals (51 total) to make it difficult (not impossible, just difficult) for the rest of the guys behind him to beat him. He basically needs to score roughly .5 goals per game to force other players to score a bit above their season goals/game average.


If he scores 15 (basically finishing the rest of the season at his career goals/game pace), he'll force the other guys to score at a .8 goals/game pace for the remainder of the season, which unless one of them turns red hot, is likely not going to happen.

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