Chasing Gretzky XIX: Father Ovechkin vs. Father Time

By Joe Pohoryles The 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend stuck out to me in a big way. It hit me when 4-year-old Sergei Ovechkin stole the spotlight from the two biggest NHL stars of the past 20 years during the Breakaway Competition. The sequence earned a perfect score in what was one of the more wholesomeContinue reading “Chasing Gretzky XIX: Father Ovechkin vs. Father Time”

Chasing Gretzky XVI: Howe’s it Going?

By Joe Pohoryles After a slow start to his 18th NHL season, Alex Ovechkin is kicking it up a notch. He failed to score in the first three games of the season for the first time since 2012-13, where he ended up finishing with a league-leading 32 goals in the 48-game lockout season. Now heContinue reading “Chasing Gretzky XVI: Howe’s it Going?”