Ovechkin, Jagr, And A 2005 Scrap Oleg Tverdovsky Still Owns

Oleg Tverdovsky is revisiting the 2005 moment when a big hit on Jaromir Jagr helped spark a fight with a young Alex Ovechkin, and the tone already sounds like classic old-man-room hockey lore. RMNB’s angle leans into the kind of story the league loves to retell because it mixes star power, chaos, and the old code in one neat package. “It’s hockey” is doing a lot of work here, because that phrase usually covers everything from bruised egos to bench-clearing history.