Alex Ovechkin is now 27 goals away from setting the all-time NHL goal scoring record.
He’s about to pass Wayne Gretzky.
At the start of the year, people thought he might have a shot at it.
Or that maybe it would take into next year as well.
But then Ovechkin scored 15 goals in 18 games.
Leading the NHL in goals at 39-years old.
One of the more incredible things we’ve ever seen in the history of hockey.
Then he collided knees with Jack McBain.
Now Ovechkin is injured, listed as week-to-week.
As you might expect, Capitals fans are not handling it great.
Yeah they’re definitely threatening his life in there.
Take a deep breath everybody.
There’s simply no need for death threats.
No need to inform Jack that you know the names of his closest friends and family members.
That you know where they work and go to school.
You don’t need to let him know the contents of your gun cabinet.
Now if you’ve already done any of those things, that’s ok.
I don’t condone it, but online death threats are for the most part ignored nowadays.
You’ll probably get away with it if you leave it at that.
If you don’t go any further, I’m sure it will all blow over.
You don’t have to pass it on to a member of the KGB.
I know how it feels to be angry about sports.
When you feel like you’ve been done wrong by another player, team, or even an analyst.
I promise I can relate.
And there’s something especially upsetting about an injury.
When you feel like a player intentionally hurt one of yours.
Especially when they’re on the verge of greatness like Alex Ovechkin or the Indiana Hoosiers.
That brings out a special throw in of rage.
But it’s possible for you to’t act on it.
And lets be real.
For one, Jack McBain didn’t intentionally do shit.
It was whatever the hockey equivalent of a bang-bang play is.
At VERY worst he dragged his leg for a little long.
That doesn’t mean he was set out to snap his femur in half.
Even if Jack McBain did blatantly have a go at injure Ovechkin.
You have Tom fucking Wilson on your team.
And he already took care of the retaliation to Jack McBain last night.
If anything, maybe blame Tom Wilson for the bad karma he put out into the world.
Just take a deep breath.
It will all be ok.
There’s no need for death threats of any kind.
Ovi will be back in no time to shatter that bitch Wayne Gretzky’s goal record.
Nobody will even remember Jack McBain’s name a year from now.
And hopefully that’s not because Putin quietly made him disappear.
