'Svech means a lot to us. Young kid, just turned 19, he has a special bond with our group and me too so when you see that it makes you sick.' Canes and Caps weigh in on last night's Ovechkin-Svechnikov fight:
head coach Rod Brind'Amour said Andrei Svechnikov is in the concussion protocol. Went to the hospital last night and "everything checked out," according to Brind'Amour.The buzz around the fight on Tuesday has a lot to do with who initiated it – was it Ovechkin, who dropped his gloves first, or did Svechnikov push the envelope and ask or insist on a fight? Some question that even if Svechnikov did ask for it, Ovechkin maybe shouldn’t have taken him up on the fight.
Rod Brind’Amour on whether Andrei Svechnikov asked Alex Ovechkin to fight: “There’s two versions going around. I’ll just leave it at that.”Svechnikov has not been able to comment on it yet, but we do know the 19-year-old Russian is a big fan of, and looked up to, his 33-year-old countryman. Although we can make conclusions about how the fight started by trying to read lips or watch replays, it’s hard to know exactly what happened in the heat of that moment.
Ironically, asked Svechnikov about competing against Ovechkin after morning skate. "I followed him as a kid. Good guy. Leader of that team. It's fun to play against him." Now, this.— Tom Gulitti The ‘Canes led the game 1-0 at the time of the fight and added another four unanswered goals over the final two and a half periods to run away with a Game 3 victory on home ice that kept them in the series.
“So it’s a little bit frustrating because he got hurt and it’s his first fight. He’s played 90 games, never fought in his life and I’m pretty sure Ovi knew that. That stuff bothers me.” Ovechkin and Svechnikov just dropped the mitts. One-sided bout. Svechnikov getting help from medical trainers. Skates off.
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