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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Lets face it. If AO was a Canadian born player he would be worshipped in this country. Since he's Russian many fans try to discredit him as some one dimensional guy that only cares about scoring while convieniently forgetting that Lemieux, Gretzky, Hull, Bossy etc were never once confused for Selke candidates. As far as scoring goes he's having a more impactful HOF career than Crosby.
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Probably true.
But it's also worth mentioning that those 5 other players you mention have combined 13 Stanley cups as players, which counts for something.
Regarding Ovechkin this year, he leads any other scorer by 10 goals. That's 20% more than anyone else. That's significant.