Perhaps they're best suited as arch rivals.
The Metropolitan Division won the 3-on-3 tournament at the NHL All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, but not because the fantastical combination of Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin was a match made in heaven for substitute head coach Wayne Gretzky.
In fact, Gretzky's decision to turn the two greatest players of their generation into a tandem was a failure.
At least, that's how Drew Doughty saw it.
"We shut 'em down," he told LA Kings Insider Jon Rosen, presumably through his toothless grin.
"I don't think they scored against us. They're easy to play against."
Crosby scored, and later set up Ovechkin in the Metropolitan Division's 10-6 win over the Atlantic before being shut out by Doughty's Pacific All-Stars.
Later, they decided to exchange faulty weapons.
Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby traded sticks after the all-star game.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) January 30, 2017
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