From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 on the way to chasing NHL history
Raised in the final years of the Soviet sports system by parents who were already accomplished athletes, Ovechkin was given ...
From Moscow to Washington, how Ovechkin became the Great 8
Alex Ovechkin almost stopped playing hockey.His mother, Tatyana, was a basketball player, his father, Mikhail, was a soccer ...
Rangers’ J.T. Miller ‘nothing but thankful’ ahead of first showdown with Canucks
The game will be Miller’s first against the Canucks since they traded him to New York in January. He played 404 games with ...
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From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 on the way to chasing NHL history
he realized he needed three goals to break a record set by Pavel Bure. He scored six times the next game. A few years later, other parents thought putting Ovechkin on the first line with Dynamo ...
From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 en route to chasing NHL history
He was a very, very bright young man in terms of his goal-setting for his life,” said Hockey Hall of Famer Igor Larionov, who met Alex Ovechkin as a teenager. “He was determined. He was one of the ...
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From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8, chasing NHL history
he realized he needed three goals to break a record set by Pavel Bure. He scored six times the next game. A few years later, other parents thought putting Ovechkin on the first line with Dynamo ...