Heading into Game One of the Washington Capitals’ first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers, Alex Ovechkin will be fully carb’d and cheeto’d.
This comforting news comes from the Capitals, who documented players arriving for the team plane at Dulles International Airport.
“You already know,” the team wrote on Twitter.
you already know pic.twitter.com/Tq65ZRqJEO
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) April 20, 2024
For the last few seasons, at least as far as we know, Ovechkin has consumed a meal to start road trips that would send a normal human into a food coma.
“Every time we go on the plane he always picks up a footlong spicy Italian from Subway,” Lars Eller said to Tarik El-Bashir. “He always comes on the plane, he sits down and he just eats this huge, footlong spicy Italian sandwich.”
In the photo the Capitals posted on social media, Ovechkin had already consumed half the sub and most of the Flaming Hot Cheetos, perhaps suggesting his hunger is even bigger now it’s the postseason.
The Cheetos are a fairly-new documented addition this season. Ovechkin cheesed with his bag for a photo ahead of a crucial game against the Buffalo Sabres in early April.
Hopefully, this routine-turned-superstition continues to fuel the Capitals with more unlikely wins and more Ovi goals in the playoffs.
