From today's Washington Post:
The NHL's general managers voted 29-1 to outlaw mirrored visors, like the one Ovechkin sported to much fanfare last season, Capitals General Manager George McPhee said. At least one goaltender complained the reflective visor gave Ovechkin a competitive advantage.Marketing executives, meantime, complained it obscured Ovechkin's face, thus masking his expressions. "I think players should be able to wear whatever they want," McPhee said. "At some point, we're going have to come up with some sort of [official] ruling." . . .
Click here for a look at the offending visor. More from Capitals Insider.
Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin talked about this briefly during last night's game, and apparently it isn't official until the NHLPA takes some sort of action too. I'd like to say I'm surprised, but I'm really not. After all, the league has been talking for years about how it needs to allow its best players to shine, and now all the GMs in the league are conspiring to knock one of the best in the game off of his stride. What a joke.
As for the marketing executives, if you can't market a player who does things like this just because of the visor he wears, perhaps you should find a new career:
Never. Gets. Old.
1) We find the GM’s ruling on the visor issue VERY weak! If Ovechkin hadn’t scored 50+ goals last year it wouldn’t had been an issue
2) The reasons cited are also weak. ” They want to see the faces of the players? Give us a break!
“As for the marketing executives, if you can’t market a player who does things like this just because of the visor he wears, perhaps you should find a new career:”
Forget that. When some random kid on the internet does a better job of marketing your players than you ever have, then that’s probably your first hint that you need a career change.