08-30-2017, 10:18 AM
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Ovechkin loses weight prior to Camp
http://www.tsn.ca/leaner-ovechkin-ma...kouts-1.842088
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A slimmer, trimmer-looking Alex Ovechkin is back on the ice for summer workouts more than two weeks before the start of training camp.
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Teammates noticing the difference:
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"You can see he lost some weight," centre Evgeny Kuznetsov said. "Every year you're trying to be better. You change something in the summer. Ovi's like other guys, too — he wants to change something, right? It's always nice to see when your teammates get better. They change. They try something new."
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Motivation from consecutive early playoff exits:
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"After we lost to Pittsburgh, a lot of negative things (were said) about our team, about him," Orlov said. "Everybody said, 'The Caps cannot do anything, blah, blah, blah.' So everybody understands and everybody wants to show we can do everything. ... He wants to be where he's always been, one of the superstars in the league and he wants to work hard and show everybody who he is."
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A fact that I think is lost on a lot of people:
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Ovechkin leads all players with 558 goals since entering the NHL in 2005-06, 176 more than Penguins captain Sidney Crosby.
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Personally, I'm still very surprised the Caps are so unlucky in the playoffs. I truly thought they built their team the right way this season, but it wasn't meant to be. Maybe with the personnel losses, they reinvent themselves? They still have a superstar C and a Vezina caliber G.
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08-30-2017, 10:27 AM
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#2
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Personally, I'm still very surprised the Caps are so unlucky in the playoffs. I truly thought they built their team the right way this season, but it wasn't meant to be. Maybe with the personnel losses, they reinvent themselves? They still have a superstar C and a Vezina caliber G.
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This is such a huge factor. The Flames were inches away, on a few occasions, from getting bounced in the first round in 1989.
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08-30-2017, 10:32 AM
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Why does this deserve it's own thread?
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08-30-2017, 10:37 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
Why does this deserve it's own thread?
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Quiet little one. Why enter a thread to make a comment like that, its the off-season any kind of hockey news is great! I think Ovechkin changes up his playing style this year.
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08-30-2017, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by kukkudo
Quiet little one. Why enter a thread to make a comment like that, its the off-season any kind of hockey news is great! I think Ovechkin changes up his playing style this year.
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Any hockey news you say?
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! Kukkudo gets butt hurt over simple question on HOCKEY message board!
there you go. I hope it was a good read.
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08-30-2017, 10:47 AM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Honestly, Ovechkin was never "fat". You don't need to be super lean to be good at sports, particularly hockey. If anything, this is obviously total speculation, but Ovechkin was probably taking some special vitamins in the off-season to deal with father time, which leaned him up.
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08-30-2017, 10:48 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
Any hockey news you say?
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! Kukkudo gets butt hurt over simple question on HOCKEY message board!
there you go. I hope it was a good read.
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Geez who pissed in your cornflakes this morning. Its the offseason ffs.
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08-30-2017, 10:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
Any hockey news you say?
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! Kukkudo gets butt hurt over simple question on HOCKEY message board!
there you go. I hope it was a good read.
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lol 
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08-30-2017, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Geez who pissed in your cornflakes this morning. Its the offseason ffs.
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Gear down big rig.
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08-30-2017, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by kukkudo
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Man hockey can start fast enough haha
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08-30-2017, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
Why does this deserve it's own thread?
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Which of the ovechkin season preparation threads would you like this then?
Go annoy someone else.
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08-30-2017, 10:55 AM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
Any hockey news you say?
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! Kukkudo gets butt hurt over simple question on HOCKEY message board!
there you go. I hope it was a good read.
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Wow. You're living up to your username this morning.
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08-30-2017, 10:56 AM
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Why doesn't everybody just calm down. Why so serious?
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08-30-2017, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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I kind of get the feeling if the Caps were to have a down season where they make the playoffs in one of the bottom 4 seeds that may be the year they finally break through. Like the Flames post 2004 the core of this Capitals team seems unable to overcome the burden of expectations.
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08-30-2017, 10:59 AM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Geez who pissed in your cornflakes this morning. Its the offseason ffs.
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Oh, sorry, that was me.
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08-30-2017, 11:02 AM
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This needs to be in the Jankowski thread.
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08-30-2017, 11:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
Honestly, Ovechkin was never "fat". You don't need to be super lean to be good at sports, particularly hockey. If anything, this is obviously total speculation, but Ovechkin was probably taking some special vitamins in the off-season to deal with father time, which leaned him up.
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Someone agrees with you.
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08-30-2017, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Oh, sorry, that was me.
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It's true, my cornflakes did taste strangely feminine.
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08-30-2017, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Insane_Flame
It's true, my cornflakes did taste strangely feminine.
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You can tell the difference between male and female urine?
Tip: drink less urine
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08-30-2017, 11:11 AM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You can tell the difference between male and female urine?
Tip: drink less urine
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I think InsaneFlame is actually Shooter McGavin.
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