Screw You Russian! I Saw That Stuff in a Disney Movie

"Yay for all stars."

In case you missed it yesterday, and I'm sure many of you did, Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf was narrowly beat by the Russian from DC, Alex Ovechkin in the NHL's "Super" skill competition. For those of you who are not familiar with this event, it's basically the NBA's all star Saturday on ice, but also a lot more boring.

This year they decided to spice things up with a style-shoot out. It's like the slam dunk contest without any slam dunks, which pretty much makes it as exciting as watching sap harden on trees. In any case, Getzlaf was defeated.

One of the feats that Ovechkin performed was a puck juggling routine. Basically, he scooped the puck, juggled, then tried to shoot it in the air. He missed by the way. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that whole deal totally reminded me of that cowboy kid, Dwayne Robertson, from D2: The Mighty Ducks.


In fact, that's what that kid was known for in the movie, doing a Tiger Woods like puck juggle even before Tiger Woods was around. That was the big eared kid who lassoed that one Iceland guy as he was about to smash Connie Moreau. I remembered that shit. He would also yell "yee haw" and other goofy cowboy phrases. He even did the whole puck juggling thing in the final shootout of the movie. I did remember he let the puck fall on the ground, then shot it on the ice. There was no baseball involved, but Ovechkin totally ripped that other shit off.

I just find it ironic that Getzlaf, a Mighty Duck, was beaten by a guy that stole a move from the movie the Mighty Ducks in which the Anaheim Mighty Ducks were based on. Mind blowing, I know. Perhaps Getzlaf would have fared better if he sported the old school jersey.