As it turns out, you apparently lived under the same conditions as some of the Washington Capitals did during Alex Ovechkin’s earlier years.
We all remember Boyd Gordon. He spent seven years in Washington, becoming a leader on a team that transformed from one of the league’s worst into one of the most exciting. He was a teammate of Ovechkin’s for six of those years, so naturally, he got to see a side of The Great Eight that most of us never will.
Eventually, Gordon moved on to what was then the Phoenix Coyotes.