- Russian defenseman “Boston” Orlov became the NHL’s first star of the week
“In my opinion, we still have a competitive team. I don’t think we’ve taken a big step backwards. We may have even taken a step forward.
We want to be competitive next year. I think we still want to be competitive this year. I still think we have a good enough team to compete for the Cup. We had a lot of injuries, defense problems. We tried to add a good young defender Sandin to the team. So we’ll see where we end up when things get better,” McLellan told the official NHL website.
- ESPN commentators: ‘Ovechkin is one of the greatest hockey players of all time’
Source: Sport

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