As we wait for the NHL season to come back, one Washington Capitals player we can’t wait to see again is none other than Alex Ovechkin.
Picture yourself in one or two months from now. You’re in D.C. That breath of the cold ice hits you. You don your favorite Washington Capitals jersey. Probably a red Alex Ovechkin number eight.
Once warm-ups end the puck drops. The horn guy unleashes the horn three times and chants echo of “Let’s go Caps!”.
You see Ovechkin shoot it from the office and BOOM! The red lamp lights, the siren goes off and you hear “Shake, rattle and roll” blaring through the speakers.
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These are the things I miss the most about Caps hockey and I’m sure other fans agree with me. But one player who would miss it more than us the fans would be the great eight himself.
It’s crazy to think it’s mid-March and there’s a work stoppage. It’s even crazier to fathom that Alex Ovechkin has shown no signs of aging or slowing down. Despite being 34, Ovechkin leads the Caps with 48 goals adding 19 assists for 67 points.
48 goals through 68 games played are INSANE and it’s so hard to have no hockey right now with Ovechkin being just two away from another 50 goal season.
What’s really unfair for Ovechkin is that there was a full lockout that robbed his rookie season making fans have to wait a full year to see Ovechkin don a Capitals sweater. There was also a shortened season in 2013.
But one thing is a big positive for Ovechkin. He gets to spend more time with his baby Sergei, who’s about a year and a half old already. He has become a big fan of the Ovechkin slapshot already per this video from his wife Nastya’s Instagram story last Tuesday.
Sergei's laugh 🥺 pic.twitter.com/sEXxjIVICs
— NBC Sports Capitals (@NBCSCapitals) March 10, 2020
There is no telling on when hockey will be back but we can be thankful for his wife’s Instagram account providing us wholesome content such as this. We need more positivity and videos like these help.
Once hockey is back Ovechkin will be looking for his ninth season of scoring 50 or more goals. With 706 in his career, he’s just two away from tying Mike Gartner for seventh place on the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list.
The most exciting sport on earth will be back before we know it Caps fans. This too shall pass and soon we’ll be back seeing the funnest player to watch in the league.