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The Next Messier
by Paul on 11/13/05 at 01:34 PM ET
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The Devils' defenseman had been leveled by a surprising, bone-crunching check from Washington's dynamic rookie, Alexander Ovechkin, Friday afternoon, but appeared to admire the 20-year-old Russian's aggressiveness. "It wasn't really a happy smile, I guess," White said. "It was clean. It wasn't dirty. That's part of the game. He looks for those types of hits. ... You give some and you take some. Obviously, you'd rather give them." If Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby is the next Wayne Gretzky, the edge Ovechkin plays with and his size (6 feet 2, 216 pounds) might make him the closest thing you're going to get in today's no-touch NHL to the next Mark Messier.
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