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Steve3 - 22.08.2006, 19:46THN Yearbook
THN Yearbook
München/Duisburg, 22.August 2006
Auch das bei vielen Eishockeyfans beliebte "Yearbook" der nordamerikanischen Fachzeitschrift "The Hockey News" ist jetzt erschienen! Neben Berichten über alle Teams und viele Spieler gibt es viele weiteren Infos rund um die NHL und die Saison 2006/07:
All Ovechkin, all the time
By: Scott Burnside
After Alexander Ovechkin was named the NHL’s runaway rookie of the year in Vancouver last June, Washington Capitals staffers asked the effervescent Russian when he wanted to head home.
Home? Ovechkin wasn’t going home. He was staying for the draft. And sure enough, when the Capitals made their early round selections there was Ovechkin on the stage sporting his own Caps jersey, arms draped happily around the nervous prospects’ shoulders.
As the seemingly interminable lockout came to a close, many assumed Sidney Crosby would lead the NHL into the post-lockout sunshine. Instead – and this is in no way a slight against Crosby, who in many ways is the perfect foil to Ovechkin – it was the 20-year-old Russian who helped propel the game forward with his blazing acceleration, lightning shot and board-rattling bodychecks.
He brought it all and he brought it with a smile.
In the days after the lockout the league and its players spoke of a more open NHL, of players being more accessible, of bridging the gap between fans and players, of mending fences. Many players talked the talk. Ovechkin walks it. Often the Capitals team bus was delayed as Ovechkin finished up impromptu autograph sessions. When he first arrived in Washington, communications staff asked him how to say ‘Good morning’ in Russian. Ovechkin politely declined, saying he was only going to communicate in English. To that end Ovechkin took English lessons and insisted on an English-speaking roommate on the road (Brian Willsie).
Later, when staff tried to give him a gift certificate to a local steakhouse for being so gracious with the fans and media, Ovechkin declined.
“If people want to talk to me, I talk to them,” said Ovechkin (in English).
As the season wore on, Ovechkin became more comfortable chatting and joking with reporters, at one point suggesting it was more difficult to drive in America than in Russia because you couldn’t simply pay off the police.
Lest he be mistaken for a flake, Ovechkin also has a keen sense of history. During the course of last season Ovechkin politely asked for and received autographed sticks from Crosby, Zdeno Chara and Mark Messier. Messier returned the favor by asking Ovechkin for one of the rookie’s sticks for his own collection.
Of course, all of his personality and panache amounts to a hill of day-old caviar if the kid can’t play. But that doesn’t appear to be a problem.
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