Earlier in the week, reports surfaced that former Capitals star Alex Semin was officially retiring from hockey. Semin planned to have a farewell game in his hometown of Krasnoyarsk.
While at the Dynamo Moscow soccer game Saturday, Ovechkin was asked if he would attend to support his former teammate.
Legend of sport Alex Ovechkin attended the Russian Premier League game between Dynamo Moscow and PFC Sochi on Saturday. It appears Ovi brought along his wife Nastya and three-year-old son Sergei for the soccer match as well.
Dynamo lost to Sochi 5-1 to win bronze in the RPL this season. But that doesn’t mean the Ovechkins didn’t have a good time at the event.
The Baltimore Orioles finished dead last in the AL East in four of the last five seasons and lost over 100 games twice during that span. The franchise’s worst season of all time came in 2018 when they lost 115 games, good for a .290 win percentage. But all that losing does have its perks.
Saturday, the Orioles called up their number one overall pick from the 2019 MLB Draft, catcher Adley Rutschman.
Alex Ovechkin is arguably the greatest goal-scorer of all time and approaching a regular-season goals record many once believed was unbreakable. While Ovechkin has accomplished an incredible amount of things during his career, there is one thing that eludes him: scoring a playoff overtime goal. (Perhaps the Hockey Gods believe the world would explode with the energy released in the proceeding goal celebration.)
After being eliminated by the Florida Panthers in six games, Ovechkin went without scoring a playoff OTGWG in a postseason run for the 14th time in his career.
But let’s put this incredible stat in perspective.
Evgeny Kuznetsov turned 30-years-old on Thursday.
Like the big boy that he is, the Capitals’ first-line center got a special birthday cake that included his favorite race car team.
Video of Kuzy receiving his cake was posted by Varvara Orlova on her Instagram Story.
TJ Oshie wants in on what could be an epic shootout between two of the greatest athletes in sports history.
During a LeBron James Q/A on Twitter Monday, Tom Brady asked the four-time NBA champion who would win in a five-round ice hockey shootout.
Alex Ovechkin flew home to Russia on Monday and appeared to arrive home later that night. The next morning, when Sergei and Ilya Ovechkin awoke from bed, they had a special surprise waiting for them. Their Dadvechkin.
“Daddy is back 😍,” wrote Nastya Ovechkina on Instagram.
Nicklas Backstrom could be facing an uncertain future if he opts to get another surgery on his hip, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, one of the NHL’s top insiders, said on his podcast 32 Thoughts, Monday.
Friedman, who co-hosts the pod with Jeff Marek, played a snippet of Backstrom’s remarks from Breakdown Day.
“We’ll see what happens,” Backstrom said of rehabbing his hip over the summer. “We have some decisions to make. Those decisions aren’t final yet so we’ll take it day by day.”
Those comments “surprised a lot of people,” said Friedman.
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Washington Capitals majority owner Ted Leonsis addressed the Capitals’ 2021-22 season and thanked fans for their support in a heartfelt writeup on his blog Ted’s Take, Monday.
The Capitals finished with a 44-26—12 record and finished the season with 100 standings points, good for the second wild-card spot (8th place) in the Eastern Conference. The Capitals were eliminated for the fourth consecutive season in the first round. They have not won a playoff series since 2018 when they won the franchise’s first Stanley Cup.
The 2021-22 campaign was highlighted by Alex Ovechkin’s ninth 50-goal season. Ovechkin now has 780 career goals and sits 21 behind Gordie Howe and 114 behind Wayne Gretzky with four seasons left in the five-year extension he signed last summer.
The New York Islanders announced the hiring of former Capitals assistant coach, Lane Lambert, as its new head coach on Monday. Lambert will replace his longtime partner, Barry Trotz, who was fired last week.
Lambert, 57, had served under Trotz for the last 10 years as both an assistant coach, associate coach, and an interim head coach (two weeks last season) during stints in Nashville, Washington, and Long Island.
Lambert won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in 2018 and was responsible for the team’s forwards and penalty kill.
