Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Mikhailovich "Alex" Ovechkinis a Russian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. Prior to entering the NHL, Ovechkin played for HC Dynamo Moscow of the Russian Superleague for four seasons, from 2001 until 2005, and returned to play for them briefly during the 2012–13 NHL lockout. A highly touted prospect, Ovechkin was selected by the Capitals first overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. With the 2004–05 NHL lockout cancelling the...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth17 September 1985
CityMoscow, Russia
I feel great we won this game. We lost our last six so I feel excellent and I feel happy. We played hard.
We came out and played hard. I'm happy to score three goals to win this game. It's my first hat trick in the NHL and it feels like my first goal in the NHL.
We came here to win, the first period we played well, but Toronto won the third,
We played not good for two periods. The third period, I think we played pretty well.
If we wouldn't have lost the (last) game before the Olympics, I would have felt better. But I think we played very well in the first period and we missed second-period chances.
We played very well, but we had lots of penalties.
It will be the biggest game of my life. Canada will be a lot tougher than the Americans.
We just play how we can and we don't score. Everybody is trying hard. ... We just play and we don't have luck.
We had a good game tonight, but we made a few too many mistakes. Tomorrow is a big game and we can't make those mistakes.
Everybody in my country is jumping, I think. And everybody at the Olympics will drink lots of vodka.
Everybody in my country is jumping and drinking lots of vodka.
This is special, very special, for our country.
I work to make shots, I try to do something, always to do something,
My first goal is to help the team.