Ovechkin set for NHL goal record but Putin link casts shadow
Alexander Ovechkin is closing in on the record for the most goals scored in the National Hockey League. While his achievement ...
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How Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 while chasing NHL history
Alex Ovechkin almost stopped playing hockey. His mother, Tatyana, was a basketball player, his father, Mikhail, was a soccer ...
From Moscow to Washington, how Ovechkin began chasing Gretzky’s NHL goals record
Born Sept. 17, 1985, and coming of age just as the Soviet Union was giving way to a new Russia, Alex Ovechkin was drawn to ...
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From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 on the way to chasing NHL history
Center Nicklas Backstrom, defenseman Mike Green and winger Alexander Semin joined ... you have to think about your family, kids first, Nast, me,” Ovechkin said. “It changed 100%.” ...