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Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 9:21 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>Look how far you are stretching man. If Sprong is such a great player why has he spent the last two seasons on 1 year contracts from 2 different teams?
I mean really. Take the homer glasses off.

There is plenty of evidence on how bad a leader OV is. Just go look at the video of the games he lost to the penguins left and right with him sitting on the bench pouting half the game.
He's never been a good leader, and caps fans themselves have pointed it out. He's never been a guy to rally his team to win, or lead by example. Other than trying to teach Wilson how to be his little crony thug.
That's not exactly leadership. But hey, keep thinking what you think. It's funny to see people come out and say Sprong is a good player who doesn't struggle finding contracts. Because you know, it's typical to sign good NHL players to 1 year deals to teams that finished the year bottom of the league last year.
Hell maybe the yots should sign him to a 4 mil per x 6 deal if he's so good lol</div></div>

Firstly, lol. Ovi was about the only guy to consistently show up in big games for at least 5 years, except for maybe Joel Ward. He's the guy getting the entire team in the zone before games and going over what they did well after. Video of this is readily available and the guy was in the middle of the huddle game planning during timeouts, the notion he was "pouting" when he was playing 20+ minutes and was the only one scoring is clearly your selective Penguins fan memory. This is the same guy who helped Adam Oates bumble his way into a playoff series in 2012, going from last to first in no small part due to his leadership. There's video after video of him miced up getting people to rally together, it's only ever been him or Oshie to get the troops rallied. You'd think former players, especially those who left on a sour note, would have anything bad to say, but they do nothing but sing his praises as a leader. really makes ya think...

also, on wilson, big lol. Wilson played fourth line for 3+ years with Eric Fehr, Jay Beagle, and Aaron Volpatti among others. Management, not Ovechkin, chose to force him into the grinder role for those years, and blaming Ovi is clearly the Pens fan in you still being mad about Zach Aston-Reese. To claim Ovechkin made him "his goon" is Qanon levels of conspiracy.

And on Sprong, lets see how he gets paid this year. Considering he's a 0.5 ppg winger on a team on the verge of playoffs, I'd say he won't have to worry about money for the near future.