Photo: @CapsPR

On Tuesday, the Washington Capitals unveiled their Winter Classic jerseys and brought along Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Braden Holtby along for the ride to be their models. When I first noticed Ovi, something looked kinda off. Then he came closer, and yes, he was wearing white baseball pants bunched up at his ankles. And sandals.

My first thought: he must have seen the slacks somewhere in the Nationals clubhouse, mistaken them for Dolce & Gabbana pants, and just put them on.

Nope. This was an intentional outfit decision by Alex Ovechkin. I love it.

Later, he confirmed to The Washington Times’ Tom Schad that he was wearing baseball pants. “Uh, yeah,” he said, with some sass. “We’re on a baseball field.”

Yup. RT @alex_prewitt I think Ovi is wearing baseball pants. pic.twitter.com/0cMKGJgi9o

— Tom Schad (@Tom_Schad) September 23, 2014

Okay, so that’s why. Sure, they don’t look that great with sandals, but I love the dual sport enthusiasm.

Ovi then went to the batting cages. Suddenly his baseball pants were gone and he was wearing shorts.

Good stance RT @CapitalsPR pic.twitter.com/gqpk2RXSjD

— RMNB (@russianmachine) September 23, 2014

But Ovi, now you’re playing baseball.

Okay, you know what. Forget it.