Alex Ovechkin is just made different. He eats Italian pregame that would put a normal man in a food coma. It’s also been well documented that Ovi drinks soda during games.
With the Capitals-Penguins game streaming exclusively on ESPN+, reporter Emily Kaplan took time to investigate these legendary tales about Ovi and she learned new details about The Great 8’s soda habit during games.
By Ian Oland 5 months ago
Normal people buy 12 cans of Coke and put it in their pantry. When you’re Alex Ovechkin, the Coke factory comes to you.
Friday afternoon, Nastya Ovechkina took to her Instagram Story to document the family’s latest shipment of Coke products.
It’s a lot.
With two minutes and twenty-eight seconds remaining in the first period, Alex Ovechkin absorbed a painful leg-on-leg hit from Nazem Kadri. It took Ovechkin nearly two minutes to get up and when the Russian superstar did, he needed help from two teammates to get back to the bench. Many fans wondered if the injury was season-ending or career-threatening. What on earth was going on behind closed doors?
According to Alex Ovechkin, he was drinking a soda.
By Ian Oland 5 years ago
Photo credit: Washington Capitals Instagram
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was a busy man last night. After scoring two goals and breaking the goal cam in the Capitals’ 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers, he left Verizon Center in a rush and boarded a jet. But not before some photos and some not-so-subtle product placement.
Sean Leahy at Puck Daddy brings news that Washington’s Alex Ovechkin will be a torchbearer at the Sochi 2014 Olympics. This not-all-that-surprising news comes to us by way of a Russian Coke commercial, dutifully translated below.
Ovechkin seems primed to have a prominent role in the Sochi Olympics. I feel like we need to staff up the blog to get ready.
Igor’s translation of the video, along with a billion other Coke/Ovi/Olympic videos, are below.
By Peter Hassett 9 years ago
