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Brett Hull heard it until he won a Stanley Cup in his 12th year.

Steve Yzerman heard it until he held the silver mug in his 14th season.

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Now Alex Ovechkin’s ears are burning because while he has 525 goals — and 41 goals and 82 points in 84 playoff games — once again his Washington Capitals are out, long before any Cup celebration.

Hull scored 741 goals, third all-time, and he had 190 playoff points (seventh), but until he got that disputed goal with his foot in the blue-paint to get Dallas past Buffalo in 1999, there was no Cup. He had 586 regular-season goals before his first Cup.

He won a second in Detroit in 2002.

Yzerman had 1,755 points and another 185 in the playoffs but after starting in the NHL in 1983 at 18, he didn’t win in Detroit until he was 32 in 1997 after 1,340 points, after changing the way he played. Then again in ’98 and 2002.

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Ovie, who turns 31 in September, is 11 years in and he hasn’t got past the second round of the playoffs. “This sucks,” said Ovechkin.