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Alex Ovechkin takes lap around Dynamo Moscow rink with Stanley Cup

Alex Ovechkin had his day with the Stanley Cup on Saturday and he’s been a busy man.

After bringing the NHL’s championship trophy to a World Cup fanfest event, Ovechkin took Lord Stanley’s Cup to the Novogorsk headquarters of his former KHL/Russian Super League team, Dynamo Moscow.

After being honored during a ceremony and taking photos with kids, Ovechkin strapped on his skates and took a lap around the rink while raising the Stanley Cup.

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Alex Ovechkin holds up Stanley Cup next to Nicklas Backstrom’s photo during Dynamo visit

When the NHL entered a lockout during the 2012-13 regular season, Alex Ovechkin returned to Moscow to play in the KHL for his hometown team, Dynamo. After some gentle persuasion, Nicklas Backstrom also joined him there.

“Ovechkin’s been calling since he came to Moscow,” Backstrom told SVT Sport at the time. “It’ll be fun.”

On Saturday, Ovechkin returned to Dynamo Moscow’s headquarters in Novogorsk as part of his day with the Stanley Cup. While there, Ovi lifted the Cup with his father, Mikhail, for the first time. However, he also made another important stop to lift the Cup.

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By Donya Abramo On July 7, 2018 2 Comments

Alex Ovechkin to bring Stanley Cup to Dynamo Moscow headquarters on July 7

Alex Ovechkin’s day with the Stanley Cup is coming more into focus.

On July 7, the Russian machine is scheduled to have the NHL’s championship trophy in Moscow. In an Instagram post, Ovechkin publicized that he would bring the Cup to a World Cup fanfest event in Sparrow Hills from 1-4pm on Saturday. Now, Dynamo Moscow, Ovechkin’s former Russian hockey team, has announced Ovechkin will be hosting an event at it’s Novogorsk headquarters.

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By Ian Oland On July 5, 2018 0 Comment

Alex Ovechkin does not believe it’s possible to break Wayne Gretzky’s goal record

On Tuesday, Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin returned to the facility of his old team in Russia, Dynamo Moscow. While there, he met with Sport-Express’ Igor Eronko, and the two spoke about Ovechkin’s next hockey milestone: beating Wayne Gretzky’s goal-scoring record.

Ovi did not think anyone would ever surpass Gretzky’s 894 career goals.

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By Donya Abramo On June 26, 2018 0 Comment

Stan Galiev stuck in limbo as KHL resolves Dynamo Moscow mess

On July 1, former Capitals forward Stan Galiev announced that he was returning to Russia to play in the KHL. An unrestricted free agent, Galiev cited his frustration with limited NHL playing time, as well as his desire to play in the Olympics, as reasons for the move.

But Wednesday came a development that will undoubtedly frustrate Galiev more, but in a different way. According to Sport Express’s Alexei Shevchenko, Galiev’s KHL rights are owned by Dynamo Moscow and the forward, for now, is stuck in limbo, unable to practice with Dynamo or sign with a new team.

Let me explain.

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By Ian Oland On July 5, 2017 0 Comment

Alex Ovechkin goes to Vladimir Putin town hall meeting to lobby for struggling Dynamo franchise

Russia President Vladimir Putin made national headlines on Thursday when he offered political asylum to James Comey.

“[Comey] said he’d written down his conversation with President [Trump] and handed it to the media through a friend of his,” Putin said, according to NPR and a translation by Radio Free Europe. “This does sound and look odd: the director of a security service making records of his talks with the supreme commander and handing it over to the media through a friend of his.”

Putin was speaking at an annual Direct Line appearance on state TV, in which he spends hours taking questions from a studio audience and from civilians across Russia.

While Putin made his remarks, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was spotted sitting in the crowd.

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By Ian Oland On June 15, 2017 0 Comment

Alex Ovechkin’s Tribute to Dynamo Moscow

Photo: @a0gr8

Early Sunday morning DC time (2 AM), Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin instagrammed a photo. The Russian machine stood in front of some sort of Dynamo Moscow shrine (I assume in his mansion), smiled, and held up his finger. He wrote:

с Днем рожДения, роДное Динамо!!!я очень горД что я Динамовец!….Люблю..Горжусь…я очень горжусь что вся моя семья Динамовцы!!!!

I had no idea what that said, so I asked Igor and Fedor. This is how it translates.

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By Ian Oland On November 24, 2014 0 Comment

Like the changing of the seasons and the turning of the tide, you can depend on rumors of Alex Ovechkin returning to the KHL to pop up on a regular basis. You can set your watch to it, if you want your watch to be really unreliable.

On Thursday afternoon, we got our latest dose of Ovi-back-home panic, as quoted by Slava Malamud.

Dynamo Moscow boss Arkady Rotenberg has told Sportbox.ru "there is desire on (Ovechkin's) part" to return to the KHL. #Caps

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 13, 2014

The full text of the interview isn’t quite so inflammatory.

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By Peter Hassett On November 13, 2014 0 Comment

What US Sanctions for Dynamo Moscow’s President/Putin’s Judo Partner Mean for Alex Ovechkin

[Editor’s note: We’re not writing about this topic to invite a debate on Barack Obama’s presidency or the politics of Crimea. This article is about hockey. Kind of. It’s also about Miley Cyrus.]

In March, Vladimir Putin sent troops into the Crimea. His stated motive was to protect the mostly Russian population there from unrest. A few days later, the Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine and asked to join the Russian Federation. Putin then claimed Crimea as part of Russia on moral and material grounds, citing the principle of self-determination and Crimea’s strategic importance for Russia or some ish like that.

Lots of world leaders were pretty pissed about this, judging by the non-binding UN resolution (100 of 193 in favor) that declared Crimea’s Moscow-backed referendum invalid a few days later. Then the United States decided to show just how pissed they were by sanctioning Vladimir Putin and all his boyz.

Those of us who watch the news every night and consider ourselves informed knew all of this already. What we didn’t know is who exactly got sanctioned, why they got sanctioned, and why those sanctions matter to us. Thanks to Jennifer M. Smith (whom we had the pleasure of meeting at RMNB Party 6) and her co-workers at the Stewart & Stewart law firm, we have learned that some of the people sanctioned are deeply involved in the Russian hockey league, the KHL. Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, president of Alex Ovechkin’s former KHL team Dynamo Moscow, has been sanctioned by the United States for being Putin’s former judo partner and a member of his inner circle.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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By Ian Oland On April 7, 2014 0 Comment

Evgeny Kuznetsov Records Two Assists In Traktor Loss to Dynamo Moscow (Video)

Washington Capitals top prospect Evgeny Kuznetsov returned to action following KHL Olympic break on Wednesday as Traktor Chelyabinsk faced reigning champions Dynamo Moscow in a Gagarin Cup re-match. Traktor, still battling for a postseason spot, gave the champions a battle but fell 5-3 in a high scoring affair.

Despite being one of the best players on the ice, Kuznetsov was unable to snap his goalless streak, now at 12 games (his last goal came on November 28th). But at least he keeps racking up the assists.

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