Deep State purveyors of conspiracy theories must have been orgasmic early Sunday afternoon.
That’s when Alex Ovechkin blasted a puck into the net to become hockey’s all-time goal-scoring leader, against a backdrop of all things these professional liars use to prey on the weak-minded among us, mostly Democrats.
It’s a gift, I tell you, to have such a high-profile sports story with so many elements ripe to be twisted into the fodder conspiracy theory types love to peddle.
Begin with the fact that Ovechkin is a Russian! And he plays for a team based in Washington, D.C. Looks like a KGB plant to me.
How ironic this was considering the virtue signaling NHL had a Four Nations Faceoff tournament to replace the all-star game this season, an event that had teams of players from Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland, but not Russia due to political concerns.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was greeted with his customary round of booing as the game was stopped Sunday for ceremonies to honor the Ovechkin milestone. Watching Bettman need to kiss Ovechkin’s a@# – ring – was priceless.
Maybe next year Russia gets to field a team for the NHL “Five” nations faceoff?
Sure, Ovechkin is a Putin supporter, but aren’t sports supposed to be above politics?
When Ovechkin scored for the 895th time, on a powerplay, he supplanted the Great Wayne Gretzky, widely mentioned as the likely governor if and when Canada becomes our 51st state.
If only the U.S. and Canada weren’t on the outs, we might have rushed to the aid of our northern neighbors who must be in mourning over having their national icon passed for the record.
In attendance to view the record firsthand was FBI director Kash Patel. Sure, he had a weak cover story of being a fan of the host New York Islanders. But Patel also had been on hand the previous game, when Ovechkin tied the record.
Are we to believe that Patel is just a fan of athletic greatness? When a Russian is involved? Of course not.
And Ovechkin scored off a Russian goalie. I see collusion, don’t you?
The crowd, mostly Islanders fans, actually cheered the Russian’s milestone. In a New York arena.
Cue Letitia James and Alvin Bragg. There must be some obscure statute they can prosecute these fans for violating. If not, we’ll just make up one that fits. Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.
This was a threat to democracy as we know it, for sure. Worst I’ve seen in my lifetime. It was insurrection, cheering a Russian setting a record on American soil.
I expect a few hundred former intelligence officials to rush to publish an ad proclaiming this all was nothing more than Russian disinformation.
Somewhere, Karine Gay Paree is leafing through her binder for the proper verbiage to label alleged videos of the event “cheap fakes.”
Democrats in Congress, many of them on the Chinese payroll, will show their general ignorance by wondering aloud why a Chinese player was not deemed fit to break the record.
They also will be drawing up impeachment charges against Donald Trump, for the greatest security breach in the nation’s history, allowing a Russian to break the record on domestic soil, during Trump’s watch.
More Russia, Russia, Russia, Trump might respond.
But there are positives to all this.
Gretzky said his Russian grandfather would have been happy.
Putin, relieved of needing to monitor Ovechkin’s record progress, now can contemplate peace with Ukraine.
And Zelenskyy can plead for more U.S. financial aid to bolster his country’s hockey programs in order to keep pace with the Russians. A few hundred billion dollars should do.
Sam Ross Jr's site 