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Apparently Alex Ovechkin Can’t Stop Saying ‘My Man’ and Singing the Nationwide Jingle

By Ian Oland

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April 15, 2015 12:54 am

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Photo: Alex Prewitt

After Tuesday’s practice, NHL.com beat writer Katie Brown noticed Karl Alzner and John Carlson wearing new playoff hats. Overlaid on a silhouette of Abe Lincoln (with a hole in its head*) read the text My Man. Naturally, no one really understood the significance of the phrase or what it was doing on a team-prepared hat. Sure, the Abe Lincoln silhouette was a nod to the Caps’ post-victory Honest Abe award. But what about the phrase?

Brown made Alzner spill the beans.

Audio via Katie Brown

“It’s kind of a thing when a guy scores or does something good someone says ‘My Man,'” Alzner explained– or at least tried to explain. “When a guy walks into the locker room: ‘My Man.'”

“I don’t know why,” he continued. “It’s kind of like a you’re the man type of thing.”

Alzner credited Caps video coach Brett Leonhardt for the design of the hat. Alzner said Alex Ovechkin said the phrase the most. Obviously.

On Monday, ESPN published a video interview with Ovechkin, which included mic’d up footage of him during practice. After the Russian machine takes a shot on net, he starts laughing uncontrollably, then tries to say “My Man” to a teammate before breaking up in more laughter.

Oh, this is gold.

The best part? “My Man” isn’t the only weird thing Ovechkin says– or sings.

Via The Washington Post’s Alex Prewitt:

So this is basically Ovechkin.

The Capitals also revealed new playoff shirts, which had the text “Together” in three different languages: English, Russian, and Swedish.

So when will this new apparel be available to the public? Prewitt delivers the bad news:

Sigh.

*Tuesday marked the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

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