why are people still trying to compare crosby to ovechkin???

Question

when some one has scored 30 more points then the other person
isn't the comparison pointless. especially when one is 21 years old with 5 or more years of pro hockey experiance. and the other is still a teenager and leads the leauge in scoring by more then 20 points has a +14 =+/- raiting and has put his team into a solid playoff position. next year the gap between them will be even more visiable with crosby having playoff expeiriance and entering the prim of his carreer. then we can finally compare crosby as a 20 year old with 3 years of pro hockey under his belt to ovechkin when he was 20 years old.

Answer 1

have you seen the commercial when ovechkin orders all kinds of food and puts it in Crosby's name its funny.
i know it has nothin to do with what you said but oh well

Answer 2

It is very hard to compare two players on two vastly different teams.

Ovechkin has very little help. Crosby has not only skilled teammates, but some older, experienced guys to lean on as well. The provides for help both on and off the ice.

The other thing to remember is that this is a business more than a sport these days. Ovechkin is the thing that sells tickets in Washington. If he were not so greedy with the puck people would just not show up!

Two completely different styles of play (the teams more so than the players) make for a poor platform for comparison.

Answer 3

People compare them only because Ovechkin hits, which is ridiculous. Crosby is WAY better. Ovechkin has what? 1 amazing (very lucky) goal. Crosby has what? 5? 10? Scoring on one knee? Scoring diving? Crosby has 30 more points, most assists in the NHL, and in the top 20 in goals. Nobody understand that Crosby will have a MUCH better career than Ovechkin. I'm going to laugh when my favorite player on my favorite/home team lays him out surprisingly. (Daniel Briere from the Buffalo Sabres aka, the one he hit from behind and hit his head on the door by the benchs)

Answer 4

Basically because they were both rookies coming off of the lockout in the same year, and the NHL has not seen the likes of two rookies that were so good that came out in the same year ever. Also, people are still kinda going by last years point totals which were very close. They are two different kind of players but Ovechkin's wicked goal scoring will always put him in the same sentence as Crosby because scoring goals makes it on the highlights, even if he will always have 20-30 or more less assists.

Answer 5

Jeff A, to start off you are a duchebag! Simply put, if Ovechkin was on Crosby's line. Ovechkin's production would greatly improve. On that same line however I doubt you would see a huge change in the dominating play of Crosby. You also made a comparison with putting Gretzky on the worse team in the NHL. I do agree he and that team would not win. Not because it could not be done. Just because he was awesome when he had awesome talent around him. When he didn't,,,,,Well just ask the Blues fans!

Answer 6

Both players are special talents, who bring an unique element to the NHL. The best reason why people compare the two is to generate more hype. Alex Ovechkin is the new Mario Lemieux. They both have the same offensive flair, the same on-ice vision, same ability to defend themselves...and the same backseat treatment afforded to a player lumped in the same sentence as Wayne Gretzky. Sidney Crosby is the new Wayne Gretzky, a player built small with an uncanny hockey skill set (amazing passing abilities, leadership, on-ice vision, speed). Crosby will also be the torch-bearer for the NHL for many years to come, mostly because he is Canadian, a vanilla quote, and someone who protects his image. Ovechkin is more outspoken like Lemieux. In the present, Crosby will get more hype, but in the long-term, Ovechkin will garner the same hindsight overview afforded to Lemieux once he retires.

Answer 7

Because its more than the points! Crosby is on a better team and doesn't play the rounded game that Ovechkin does,Ovechkin can shoot,pass,skate,hit he plays both sides of the puck he is the complete package and that will come to a head as they both mature don't get me wrong Crosby is much more offensively talented but not a better hockey player kind of like Gretzky to Mario Gretzky was the best offensive player ever but wasn't nearly as complete a player as Mario.

Answer 8

Simple. Ovechking outscored Crosby last year. He's more a of a true goal-scorer. He isn't playing on a very good team.

Plus, these players are rated by the talent the scouts see. If they see comparable talent in Ovechkin and Crosby, then they're gonna say so.

And, of course, there's marketing.

Answer 9

Crosby has more teammates to play with. He is not the reason they are in the playoffs at all. He's just part of it. Crosby is a baby and players are going to hate him forever because of it unless he grows up. Ovechkin is a much more respectible player and I think you put them on teams with even talent and they score the same amount of points. The comparison is there but it's hard when Pittsburgh has a much greater supporting cast than Washington does. For example, put Gretzky on the worst team in the league in his prime. Does that team win the cup? No, because it takes a team. Great players in hockey need a supporting cast to realize their full potential and in Washington, Ovechkin doesn't have that.

Answer 10

i don't think it is people comparing them as much as it is the media,if you read anything whether it is the paper,the nhl.com or yahoo sports when these two teams play each other the headlines say crosby vs ovechkin not pen vs caps.both of them are awsome players in their own style.they are 2 different individuals with different styles.one has a team to back him and the other is kind of left to do it on his own.i think everyone should keep their eyes on jordan staal.

Answer 11

Simple they are trying to make Ovenchik look better then he is. Just like when they talk about how he is a great hitter, yeah until you see some of the dirty hits he throws. Although most won't acknowledge THAT. Like when he hit that Sabres player who was going to the bench. Come on NO ONE hits a guy who is like 10 feet from the bench and going IN. That is DIRTY. They were talking about him after the Pens game last night on Fox Sports Tonight on FSP as they were talking about his hit on Colby Armstrong. Saying well was his hit on Armstrong dirty. Now Jay Caulfield(the Pens Analyst) was saying that wasn't but then showed the hit he put on that Sabres player. If he wasn't a star player he likely would have been suspended for that one for at least a few games. He SHOULD HAVE BEEN. We need to tell players like that they can't do anything they want.