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Original posting at Resurfacing the Ice When you’re called the Ovechkin of Novosibirsk, you’ve got a lot of expectations to live up to. Statistically, people may say that they don’t match up. But remember, Ovechkin scored just 69 points in 151 Russian league games (before the KHL existed) on a much better team in Dynamo Moscow. Vladimir Tarasenko, on the other hand, has scored 34 in 80 games, a very similar points percentage, and Novosibirk Siber is not nearly as talented a team as Dynamo Moscow was at the time. Nonetheless, people must remember that it matters what the player does without the puck, not just how many points they put up. "He's not the flashiest guy on the ice, but he gets it done,” Sports Illustrated says. “He just weasels his way into open ice ...

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