Bucky; Let’s Get Serious

In case you haven’t been picked up a newspaper (of course you haven’t) and missed Bucky Gleason’s amazingly inflammatory article on Alex Ovechkin today, you’re missing out.

For what it’s worth, I am not a Bucky Gleason fan, never have been, doubt I ever will be.  I find he panders to whatever the vocal minority has to say; whether his prior articles ranging from the “mistake” of letting go Drury and Briere, to how suddenly a year later he praises management for their personnel management.  But hey, if you can’t find fault in what he’s saying here, you might as well move on.

First off, in what world can a guy who covers a team who’s leading scorer has 8 goals, who’s leading point getter, Derek Roy, is averaging .82 points per game, deride Alex Ovechkin for having an off night?  Oh, God forbid Alex Ovechkin has an off night.  Those 20 goals (in 23 games) and 32 points don’t apply here.  The Sabres couldn’t use anybody like that, cause he had one off night.  Off nights?  Sabres never have those.  They didn’t score a sole goal total in the 2 games before this one, nah, that didn’t happen.  Those weren’t off nights for our entire roster though right?  Nah.

Oh, and the flop.  Glass houses, Bucky, Glass houses.  Care to take a look at the Sabres #1 center, no, not Derek Roy, never saw him take a dive before.  Do you actually watch the games?

A Floater?  Hell, I’m sure we know what floaters look like, usually we’ve got 4-6 on the ice at any given time.  Hell after a decade of Max Afinogenov and Ales Kotalik, we’re freakin’ connoisseurs of floaters.  Alex Ovechkin isn’t a floater.

Fluttered wide of an open net?  God that never happens to Jason Pominville.  Fluttered?  Looks more like a plain old one timer to me Bucko.

Now for your two most listless attacks; booed in 41 games a year?  Want to bet?  I know you don’t cover the Capitals, but sometimes I’m not even sure you watch the Sabres, let alone any other team in the league.  Tampa didn’t boo him, Toronto didn’t boo him, you know what, not even Philadelphia booed him.  Puck Daddy says it right, it’s laughable to suggest he gets booed everywhere he goes.

And this.

Ovechkin drives a $300,000 Mercedes with a Virginia license plate that reads “AO GR8″ and owns a $10,000 cell phone. He usually plays the same way he lives, with his foot to the floor while disregarding the traffic around him.

That’s your big finish?  Vanity?  For a guy who makes $9 million dollars a year, who had one bad night?  What kind of car does Vanek drive? Oh that wouldn’t be convenient for you to jump on the “Ovechkin is a bad guy” sentiment that’s rolling around anymore.

Your penis envy is only surpassed by your ego.  Give me a break Bucky, give me a break.

And no, none of this was meant to be an attack on any of our own guys, last I checked we were leading the division, but last I checked, Washington was leading the conference.