Ovechkin & Semin

By Jill Painter on November 20, 2008 2:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Alexander Ovechkin will probably help boost ticket sales for tonight's game against the Capitals. Here's an Ovechkin featureI wrote for today's paper.
Also, Ovechkin's linemate, Alexander Semin (who along with Ovechkin leads the league with a +17 rating), will miss his third straight game with an upper back/shoulder strain, according to the Washington Post.

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
@inlandnewspapers.com.

Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
.com.