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But what are you supposed to do? You’re up by one, a minute left, you’ve got to put it in the net. It comes with being on a good team. You get leads, and then you get those. I get it, though. People don’t love it, I’m sure. But the whole point is just to end the game.”

End the game. Wait. Hang on a second. Think about that for a moment. Empty-netters end the game. They’re the true game-winning goals. Score one and you’ve assured victory. They end the tension, they deflate the opponent, they send the fans home. They’re huge. So what if Ovechkin is the NHL’s all-time leader in empty-net goals? So what if more than 7 percent of his career goal totals came without an opposing goaltender on the ice?

That means more than 7 percent of his goals guaranteed a Washington Capitals win. That’s not nothing. And look who’s next on the list — Wayne Gretzky, the man Ovechkin is chasing for the all-time goals record. Gretzky scored 56 empty-netters in his career. After that, it’s Marián Hossa (40), Brad Marchand (38), Sidney Crosby (36) and Mario Lemieux (33). Pretty good company.

I couldn't find the article, but a while ago Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili in 2008 stated, ~"We had a choice here. We could turn this country into Chechnya, we had enough people and equipment to do that; Or, we had to do nothing and stay a modern European country. Eventually we would have chased them away, but we would've had to go to the mountains and grow beards. That would have been a tremendous national, philosophical, and emotional burden..."

So, is it better to go into the mountains and grow beards, or remain Western? How do you interpret this question and what do you think. I tried thinking about it and came up with a few different ideas, but wanted to see what GaG thought.