POLL: Who will win the Art Ross?

Sedin with 99 points, Ovechkin with 98. Gonna be CLOSE...who wins the Art Ross this year?

AO.

neither

I dunno man, it's gonna be hard for Backstrom to make it up when every one of his points is a point for Ovechkin (basically).

Backstrom is good enough that he can get two assists off one of Ovechkin's goals

Sedin is gonna win it, and let's face it, Backstrom would not even be tied with Crosby if he didn't play with Ovechkin et. al.

And Ovechkin wouldn't be there without Backstrom either.

Big Ev wrote:Sedin is gonna win it, and let's face it, Backstrom would not even be tied with Crosby if he didn't play with Ovechkin et. al.

Backstrom had a 5 point game without Ovechkin and over multiple point games. In fact, I think he got more points when Ovie wasn't in the line up.
Of course playing with Ovie helps, but he's still awesome without him.

No, I know they both benefit from eachother. They go hand-in-hand. That's why Crosby isn't up with them right now, because he doesn't have a line-mate like Backstrom to play with.

Sedin's is the most impressive because of Daniel being hurt for a while, and when that happened he was stuck playing just with Burrows.

I have no trouble at all saying Backstrom is better than Ovechkin

Tuk Tuk wrote:I have no trouble at all saying Backstrom is better than Ovechkin

Ok, that's just being naive.

Big Ev wrote:

Tuk Tuk wrote:I have no trouble at all saying Backstrom is better than Ovechkin

Ok, that's just being naive.

He may be nicer, but Ovechkin is better than Crosby (yeah, I went there), Malking, Zetterberg, etc. He needs to get a bit of maturity (Crosby is certainly ahead of him there, even if he was behind in his rookie year).