Sunday, the Washington Capitals spent their off day together in New York City ahead of their game Tuesday night against the Rangers. The Capitals visited a firehouse in Chelsea, Manhattan, and also took a boat tour, zooming around the Statue of Liberty.
Caps captain Alex Ovechkin also dabbled with the panda Snapchat filter with his wife Nastya. It was truly a good look.
Perennial cover boy Alex Ovechkin is on another magazine cover – this time with his wife Nastya Ovechkina.
The Ovechkins posed inside the Capitals locker room for the March issue of Tatler magazine, a Russian periodical focusing on fashion and lifestyle.
The Washington Capitals are dispersed all across North America for their bye week. The team’s captain, Alex Ovechkin, is spending his six day and seven-night stay with his wife Nastya on Sunny Isles Beach in Miami.
Staying high atop a hotel with an oceanview, the Ovechkins celebrated Valentine’s Day at the beach in the morning, playing cards and drinking champagne. Later things turned romantic with a surprise from Alex to his wife.
During last night’s All-Star Skills Competition, Alex Ovechkin sought out the other three Russians participating in the 2017 All-Star Game for a photo – in what is becoming an annual tradition.
Early Friday, Alex Ovechkin arrived in Los Angeles for the 2017 All-Star Weekend and has kept himself busy ever since. In the afternoon, Ovechkin filmed a commercial for Beats By Dre.
In the evening, Ovechkin traveled to the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles ahead of the NHL’s Top 100 Ceremony. While he had a free moment before the ceremony, Ovechkin, who is expected to be on that prestigious list, posed with his Olympic gold medal-winning mother Tatyana, his wife Nastya, his older brother Mikhail, and his father Mikhail.
Hours before the NHL’s reveal of its top 100 players of all-time, Alex Ovechkin, who is expected to be named on that prestigious list, shot a new commercial for world-famous brand Beats By Dre.
The footage was captured by Ovi’s wife, Nastya Ovechkina, who attended the shoot.
Wednesday night, Alex Ovechkin scored his 1,000th point in front of his hometown fans. Ovechkin’s wife Nastya was also in attendance as well as the Russian machine’s parents, Mikhail and Tatyana.
Unlike Ovechkin’s 500th goal celebration, Ovi’s family was not featured in NBCSN’s national telecast of the game. The Ovechkins did however talk to Sovetsky Sport’s Pavel Lysenkov.
“We just returned home from the game,” Mikhail Ovechkin said to Lysenkov as translated by Igor Kleyner. “Of course we are very happy. What a day! We are proud of our son. As a father, I am very pleased. Put it right on the front page of Sovetsky Sport. But now I want to pass the phone to Tatyana. Let her talk about Sasha, she is better at that than I am.”
“It’s a great day,” responded Tatyana Ovechkina. “This is real happiness. It took Sasha only 35 seconds to score his goal. He didn’t want anybody to wait for too long for this point. He had a chance, and he took it. A timely shot, he caught the goalie. Turned out to be a pretty goal.”
In a long feature about Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin, NHL.com’s Tom Gulitti buried some rather big news.
Ovechkin and wife Nastya Ovechkina are planning to start a family soon.
On Tuesday, RMNB reported that Alex Ovechkin and his wife Nastya Ovechkina were auctioning off a game-used stick to help raise the money needed for a Russian baby’s emergency surgery. The pair decided to help raise the funds needed for the two-month-old’s operation through a stick auction on Nastya’s Instagram, where the starting price was $300 USD.
That night, Ovechkin scored a historic goal. Ovechkin tallied his 19th career overtime goal, tying him with Jaromir Jagr for the most OT goals in NHL history. Nastya announced today that the auction for the OT stick, in combination with other fundraising sources, was successful in raising the money needed for the baby’s emergency operation in Denmark. The highest bid for the stick was 103,500 rubles (approximately $1,741.29 USD) from a bidder who wished to remain anonymous.
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Tuesday morning, Nastya Ovechkina announced a special opportunity to land her husband’s game-used stick from tonight’s game on Instagram. It benefits a great cause.
“Dear friends, we are starting an auction,” she wrote. “Alex’s signed game-used stick! The starting price is 300$. All the raised money will go to support a child, who needs an emergency surgery! Give your prices in the comments.”
