Update on charity game by Ovechkin team and Kovalchuk team
Here's a short interview with Ilya Kovalchuk:
Kovalchuk: We will meet again at the "Sokolniki" arena on August 31st. Besides Ovechkin, Malkin will play too for sure. Also Datsyuk gave his preliminary agreement. We'll invite a lot of guys from the KHL. I think there will be a lot of star players. The fans will not be bored!Source: http://www.sports.ru/hockey/117427213.html
Do you think it would be good to invite as the players call Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Valery Belov and Andrei Nazarov? Someone who coaches the national team?
It is not a bad idea, but there's a little time left to organize the event. In the future I want it to be a tradition, a charity game at the end of the summer. There are a lot of people in Russia, especially children, who need help.
Where the proceeds will go this time?
To the orphanage in Sergiev Posad for deaf & blind children. We will try to raise more than the last year.
This is the first announcement of the charity game "From the pure heart" on Russian TV. The video shows the making of commercial about the charity game with 7 years old Maxim Kabat from juniour CSKA team. The little kid won't play in a charity game though. Kovalchuk says he is training with his fitness coach in a gym and skates for fun with his friends 3 times a week. He says it's a bit strange because he never skated that early in the summer before. Vyacheslav Kozlov (KHL) and Vladimir Zharkov (New Jersey Devils) were on the ice with Kovy.
The question is, where is Ovi? He is totally hiding from the media. Usually at this time of the year Pavel Lysenkov interviews him about his preseason training, this year? Not a word... It's almost like Ovi is not in Moscow, or comes to Moscow on a weekend to make a picture with MainPeople site... hmmm...
Update 8/22/11:
Alex Semin, Semyon Varlamov, Ilya Bryzgalov will also play in a charity game, reports Russian media.
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Maybe Ovie went to train in St. Petersburg with his former trainer Kapitinov or his brother. That would be great since they did such a good job preparing him in the pat.
I don't know where, he is, but I have no doubt he's "hiding" from the media on purpose. Too distracting, too many questions. Taking a page from Semin's book, only doing small things nobody can say anything about so he can focus on training.
As for the game, I said it before, I'm very glad they're doing this again. I would love to go, maybe next year. It's a very good idea.
The plot thickens! :-)
"While leaving the Britney show, I was beside a silver Range Rover whose driver looked ridiculously like Ovechkin. Wtf."
Um. @BeccaH_JR RT @ReboundControl: ...Pretty sure we saw Ovechkin by us in post Britney traffic. In a silver range rover. #conspiracytheory
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Um. @BeccaH_JR RT @ReboundControl: ...Pretty sure we saw Ovechkin by us in post Britney traffic. In a silver range rover. #conspiracytheory
Very interesting update TJ. The real question is what did the plates on that silver range rover say??? Seems likely this is a case of mistaken identity but maybe Ovie has a huge love for Britney!
I don't know who is Briteny, is it a singer? It's weird that he would be in DC though. Who knows though?
@AB: Ovi *is* training with Kapitinov's brother. Are the brothers located in St. Petersburg?
@Steph: you know for sure Ovie is training with Kapitinov's brother? Awesome if true.
@Yulina: I assume the Britney in the sighting is Britney Spears. I'm no fan so I'm guessing. Maybe Ovie hired a lookalike to drive around and throw everyone off track as to his whereabouts. :)
Seriously, I think Ovie is flying under the radar with his training schedule. After he announced his original plan fell through, not a peep from him. We only have photos to suggest when he might have started getting serious and how well the training has gone.
As I said on another thread, it might all be part of his plan all along to keep us guessing and speculating--and also to keep the prying eyes of the media off him. IMO he has his own agenda and schedule in mind, and no one is going to distract him from it.
@BobbyG: I had to look it up, didn't know who she was. She played in Pittsburgh last night though, so that's even weirder if we were there.
I agree with you. I think he knows he'd be easily distracted by all that Moscow has, especially for him. I wouldn't be surprised if he was in Petersburg, I hope he is.
@BG: Dmitry Chesnokv tweeted that he was working with Kapitinov's brother about a week ago... I'll try to look it up, but I dont know how to link to a tweet here...
What I find interesting about this is that it was only retweeted by 6 people... Maybe it was late at nite and people didnt catch up on their tweets? Anyway, here is the text, but you can look it up yourself. Its from 10 Aug.
"@dchesnokov
Dmitry Chesnokov
Just found out that #Caps Alex Ovechkin, after spending last offseason training on his own, is working out w/his former coach's brother.
10 Aug via web
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Retweeted by daveizzle and 6 others"
Um, sorry. I think the next one is really the evidence that is wanted:
"@dchesnokov
Dmitry Chesnokov
Dmitry Kapitonov, Ovechkin's former conditioning coach, got Alex in shape to win Harts, Art Ross etc. Kapitonov's brother is the next best
10 Aug via web
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Retweeted by VA_Envoy_LJC and 5 others"
@Steph
I'm not convinced that Ovie is working with Kapitinov yet, although that would make me happy. Chesnokov has been known to be wrong before (recall according to him Varly was playing in the KHL this season). I was looking around and didn't see any other source of that news so I didn't know what to think. Usually Ovie has an article and pics every summer about his workouts but I guess he's hiding out now. Maybe he'll speak about it when he plays in the charity game in 10 days.
@AB: That's cool. Im suspicious too... because I want it so badly! ;)
But in Dmitry's defense, at the point in time when Dmitry said Varly was going to play in the KHL, it probably was true. The Colorado option wasnt on the table. Once that was offered, he leapt at that chance.
I wouldn't discredit Chesnokov too much, Varly's agent made it seem like he had all but signed a deal and he never said for sure. I hope he's working with Kapitinov though.
Anyway, Chesnokov said Malkin, Datsyuk, Semin, Bryz, and Varly are going to play too. I don't think Semin played last time.
I saw in SovSport that Malkin and Datysuk are also playing, but I guess Kovy mentioned them in his interview. He and Ovie are picking up more NHL stars their second year.
Chesnokov had said that Varly was in Colorado now training, I guess he is going back to Russia at some point. And we knew Semin couldn't stay away from his BFF forever.
@Yulina
Shouldn't Chesnokov know better to trust a Russian agent? Slava Malamud said they are full of hot air. Best not to report something as a done deal until it actually happens. Well I can't be too hard on Chesnokov though because he does provide us with interviews of Ovi, Semin, and Varly. I just trust Slava Malamud more.
@AB: I trust Slava more as well, and yeah, generally don't trust their agents. Their goal is to either get the most money(so they benifit) or keep the player in Russia. Even if it makes said player look bad.
About Chesnokov though, I think he said many times during the whole Varly thing "according to his agent" and mentioned every once in a while, there nothing concrete. He was just saying the word in the Russian front, so to speak.
@Yulina
I thought Chesnokov was being rather dramatic about the whole situation. He seems to like to case drama (recall the whole Semin comments about Crosby incident). That said, he is still a decent source of info. I tweeted him and asked if Varly was going back to Russia for this game, and he said he thought it was odd they announced Varly's participation. He said he would ask Varly himself.
@AB: Yeah, it did seem a little much, but nothing I'd discredit for. His possible over-exaggeration of certian issues/topics is nothing compared to normal Russian "news", especially when it comes to sports.
The Semin comments weren't just him though, but he didn't really help matters. It's also very likely the reason you don't hear Semin talking to media a whole lot, in his position where people either like him or hate him, small things will be taken a big way and often the wrong way, like in that case.
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