As they prepare for yet another important showdown, Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby are still the leading men on teams they have carried for two decades.
Penguins center Sidney Crosby and Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, shown in 2023, have been battling for two decades. Growing up in Quebec, Hendrix Lapierre had jerseys for both of his favorite NHL players: a No. 8 Washington Capitals sweater of Alex Ovechkin and a No. 87 Pittsburgh Penguins version for Sidney Crosby. He remembers being glued to the television that spring night when Ovechkin hung a hat trick on the Penguins in the playoffs and Crosby answered with three goals of his own.
“It’s tough to put into words what they’ve been able to do across multiple eras, generations, and they just constantly show up and are the best players in the league for as long as I can remember,” Capitals forward Tom Wilson said. “The consistency for superstars like that to be able to do what they do and just fill the net every year makes even a good NHL player look at them and say, ‘Wow, these guys are next-level.
Incredible to watch but incredibly familiar to each other, too, not to mention completely inseparable from the teams for which they play. It’s not just that Ovechkin and Crosby have faced each other this many times — Thursday will be 69 times in the regular season, and they faced each in 25 playoff games spread over four postseasons. It’s that Ovechkin’shave faced each other all those times. The duo has defined the sport across eras nationally.
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