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 ==Factual Error== 

 As of May 28, 2008: 

 ""He is the highest paid NHL player ever, signing a 13-year contract extension worth $124 million with the Capitals, which averages $9.5 million per year, the richest in NHL history."" 

 $9.5 million per year is NOT the richest salary in nhl history. This may just be an awkwardly worded sentence, but it should be removed or altered by a registered user.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by     
 :While $9.5 million per year is far from the highest salary (Sergei Fedorov was paid $21 million for a year in the late 90's), the $124 million is by far the largest contract. It's all fixed now.    

  
 As of March 06, 2008: 

 His hat trick against boston is listed as the fourth of his career when in fact it was his fifth [he had a 4 goal, 1 assist game agains the Montreal Canadiens resulting in a 5-4 Washington victory while this game is acknowlesged in the article the author has forgotten to count it as a hat trick thus the Ottawa game is listed as his 3rd, the montreal game is skipped and the boston game is counted as a 4th. when it should be: Ottawa game  3rd hat trick, Montreal game - 4th hat trick, Boston game - 5th hat trick] 

 ==Removed Sections== 

 ""You added Svatos as a rival, but not Phaneuf?  Prucha?  Say something along the lines of '...his fellow rookies Dion Phaneuf and Sidney Crosby.  Rivals Petr Prucha and Marek Svatos were injured midway through the season, effectively removing them from the rookie race.' -Earthhuman 

  
 ""His parents say they knew he would be an athlete when Alexander chose to run up the steps to their apartment rather than take the elevator."" Who cares he has sweet dangles 

 That's an awful example-  Even I run up the stairs, and I'm no athelete.  I deleted it. -Earthhuman 

  
 *Other Rookies* 
 I don't think that Crosby was O's only rookie rival this year, so I added Svatos' name to a sentence.   

 The number of images here went beyond fair use. We can only claim [[fair use] if an image is really required for the article. I've reduced the images to only four. These four I will claim as fair use. Please don't reinstate the other images without providing evidence of their copyright status  —  |   

 I was told to take this to the discussion page, so here you go: 

 I still have serious legal doubts: it obviously comes from television footage, and there's usually a warning that any broadcast, redistribution, et cetera is prohibited without express written consent.  But I couldn't find that in writing anywhere, so I'll just let it be an open question for now (I used the same copyright tag as the last guy, but I'm very skeptical.  I'd say it's more fair-use than anything). 

 However, the ""Sidney who?"" is a pretty blatant shot at Sidney Crosby.  While I agree in sentiment, it's kind of cheap and sophomoric and really has no place here, especially given the rigid point-of-view stance.  I replaced it with another image to improve the NPOV side of things. 

 I really don't mean to come off as anal as I probably am  hell, I love the kid  but when something as blatant as that pops up, it's kind of hard not to edit it out.  I hope that the new image is a happy medium (it's better, anyway) and if it is legally sketchy, Wikipedia will probably take it down anyway. 
 

 I loaded the original image, however I did not create it, it was sent to me in an email. As for the ""Sidney Who"", I didn't even notice it until after someone pointed it out and pulled it off  lesson of the day: watch the entire GIF closely before loading.  -) 

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 Nothing personal: just fixed the POV.  Further on the legal front: I noticed that you got a copyright warning for the original image, so I just sent off a request to foxsports.com.  With any luck, we'll get comfirmation one way or another (leave it up or take it down) soon.  It's a bit of a crapshoot, but it's better than a 100% chance of being removed (if we just left it to the administrators).  If that doesn't work, I can try Comcast SportsNet because there's no way to tell where the feed came from: it's not trying to buck the system; it could honestly be either