NHL Denied Ovechkin, Crosby Series...Get Avery, Crosby Instead

With most of the hockey world watching the crucial game seven between the Washington Capitals and the Philadelphia Flyers, the league itself was most likely banking on a Caps victory. Not only would the victory for the Caps been apart of NHL history, putting them in rare company of winning a series after trailing three games to one; but it would have also given the league a media field day pitting Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby against each other in the play-offs. Even the casual hockey fan knows these two names, and their dominance in the sport is evident. Ovechkin lead the league in goals with 65 and points with 112, and is the front-runner to win the Heart Memorial trophy as the leagues most valuable player. Crosby already has this piece of hardware in his trophy case, after last year’s brilliance in which he lead the Penguins to a play-off berth with 120 points to his name. Unfortunately, Ovechkin and the Capitals lost in game seven, and Sean Avery accompanied by the rest of the Blue Shirts will be taking their act into town Friday night against Pittsburgh. The Rangers and Avery are no strangers to Crosby and the Penguins, who faced each other eight times this year as in division rivals. During the regular season the Rangers took five out of the eight against the Penguins. But this is the play-offs and both the Rangers and Penguins are playing at an all new level which should create an exciting and long play-off series.