NHL All-Star 2015 Alex Ovechkin

Sean Taylor

June 23, 2015

Thank you for viewing our livestream from the 2015 NHL All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio, where the Capitals captain, Alex Ovechkin, will represent Washington.

Alex Ovechkin has a good chance to win his fourth MVP award next month, which would give him one for every playoff series he’s won in his NHL career. In hockey, individual glory has never ever been so at odds with team success as it’s been with the Washington Capitals superstar.

There will be hundreds of things to debate after the Caps’ latest playoff flameout, a 2-1 overtime Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers. There will be takes both hot and thoughtful about why Washington was a loser once again. There will evidence that seems self-contradictory, including that the only goal in Ovechkin’s sixth Game 7 loss in nine tries was by Ovechkin himself. There will be defenses of the star, usually from those who “Rock the Red” the hardest: “Ovechkin has gone through coaches like White Houses go through press secretaries! How can he possibly have any stability?” But everything boils down to one sentence: