| 17 April 2009
When the Capitals last played the Atlanta Thrashers, Bruce Boudreau criticized the Thrashers for running a video during the game mocking Alex Ovechkin's hilariously bad commercial for Easterns Motors.
"Next time call me," Ilya Kovalchuk joked.
Boudreau would likely be the one Ovie would want to call for commercial advice. His ">"cup holder," commercial for a local Mercedes dealership was a hit with fans. But his latest foray into the advertising arts is likely to taint his reign as the NHL's best pitch man.
Boudreau's latest commercial is for Ameritel, you know, the copier sales people who famously annoy viewers with their commercials featuring "the Triplets."
Their gimmick is that every commercial ends with some lame quip about how the're family run and their parents really know how to make good copies. Cue "the Triplets" standing up, smiling and then cementing themselves as the ">"Saved by Zero" of family advertisements.
Cutesy? Yeah. Terribly annoying? It will be.
I'm sure that the Ameritel people were thrilled to have a Washington celebrity like Bruce Boudreau appear in their folksy "Brady Bunch,"-esq ad.
But here's what the commercial should have been.
Bruce Boudreau comes to the Ameritel store and asks for copies. They say sure, how many do you want, and he grabs Alex Ovechkin and goes "18 please."
Instant classic.
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