Charity Game

Alex Ovechkin plays in Artemi Panarin’s charity game, scores shootout goal, takes Ovi Jr out onto the ice

Alex Ovechkin is one of the game’s greatest players of all time. So when asking him for a favor, one would assume he might be busy — like to play in a charity hockey game.

“I just called,” New York Rangers superstar Artemi Panarin said. “He immediately (said), ‘I agree.'”

Ovi and Dmitry Orlov participated in Panarin’s charity hockey game in Moscow on Saturday. Funds from the event would go to a young girl who had complications from brain tumor surgery.

“In all honesty, it surprised me,” Panarin said of Ovechkin’s participation. “I was very happy. He called me here a couple of days before the match, I got scared because I thought he would refuse.”

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By Ian Oland 1 year ago

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Alex Ovechkin Coached By Mother Tatyana Ovechkina in Charity Basketball Game

Over the weekend, Alex Ovechkin brought his sick handles and gold number 8 necklace to the basketball court for a good cause. The Russian machine participated in the Step Forward Foundation’s charity basketball game for the second year in a row to help raise money for kids with cerebral palsy. The game was held at Moscow’s Dynamo Palace of Sports.

Ovechkin captained the green team, which was named “Together We Are Brighter” and coached by two-time Olympic gold medalist and his mother, Tatyana Ovechkina.

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By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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Matt Hendricks Faces Off with Jack Jablonski, Fails to Score in Charity Shootout

Paralyzed high-school hockey player Jack Jablonski drops the puck for a ceremonial faceoff between Parise and Hendricks. (Photo via Defending the Blueline)

When George McPhee traded for Mike Ribeiro and signed Wojek Wolski, he formed perhaps the greatest shootout line-up in the history of hockey. That duo is rounded out by Matt Hendricks, who went 5 for 6 and embarrassed some of the best goalies in the game last season. The Capitals don’t even need Alex Ovechkin or Nicklas Backstrom for the gimmick anymore.

But temper that confidence. On Sunday, NHL players including Zach Parise, new Caps defenseman Jack Hillen, and Hendricks, took the ice for a charity game benefiting Defending the Blue Line. The game brought 3,000 hockey-starved fans out to the University of Minnesota and raised an estimated $50,000 for the children of military parents. It was great, until Hendricks’ shootout attempt at the end of the game.

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By Ian Oland 11 years ago

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