Seriously, just GIVE IT UP already. Its like arguing apples and oranges. Some will prefer one, and some will just prefer the other.
Personally, I have always liked Crosby better because of his pure grit, determination, and ability to work within a team. Ovechkin typifies the Russian player, highly skilled, flashy, will to win... but highly individualistic. Until he leads his team to a major championship or title, I would build a team around Crosby over Ovechkin.
@Netskot: really, you should've stopped after you completedly contradicted yourself on that one post (you still haven't really acknowledged how poorly you worded it).
Seriously, let everyone have their own opinion.
The argument re: the calibre of the NHL teams they play for. That is crap. Washington is as good a team as Pittsburgh with as many superstars (Backstrom, Greene, Semin say hi). You guys (Diet Water included) make it sound like the Caps are the Edmonton Oilers without Ovechkin. They are two talented teams with two high profile players that made it to the seventh game of the playoffs and people are merely pointing out that everytime Crosby and Ovechkin seem to meet, Crosby's team will usually win.
Now for the sake of argument, is the Canadian junior team THAT much better than the Russian junior team when Ovechkin and Crosby played for them, and even this olympics, is the Canadian team THAT much better than Russian team (hell, Russia was ranked first coming into the olympics).
The resouding answer is NO, these teams are comparables and guess what, Crosby and Canada won both times.
You are entitled to your own opinion. I don't expect you to change yours, but I would also expect you don't expect to change mine or anybody else that thinks differently.
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