(Caps Outsider)
“I just try to do my job, you know,” Alex Ovechkin told reporters following the Caps victory against Columbus Saturday night.
Ovechkin has 41 points, including 20 goals. Through just 26 games, the 36-year-old captain is leading the severely-shorthanded Capitals to a red hot start atop the Metropolitan Division.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ovechkin is the MVP of the league at its quarter-way point.
The Great Eight is personally carrying a team to wins night after night with a roster made of players who many fans still don’t know.
The Hart Trophy is awarded to the player that is most valuable to his team, and Ovi is embodying that description, scoring at his fastest rate without his usual centerman Nicklas Backstrom.