Ovechkin talks after morning skate in Edmonton

Long one, all Canadian broadcasters are present, plus NHL network.

Jim Matheson, Montreal Gazette

EDMONTON — There is a rock band feel to the Washington Capitals and Alex Ovechkin when they hit the road.


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“We don’t get to Western Canada that often, only every two years, and they don’t get a chance to see Alex much. The buzz in, say, Vancouver last year . . . I know I’m old, but it was like the Beatles had just hit North America,” said Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau.

Oilers forward Taylor Hall said Wednesday that Ovechkin probably doesn’t know who he is. Ovechkin quickly shot that down.

“Hall? I met him at the All-Star Game last year. He probably forgets that. He is a superstar. He doesn’t want to hang around small guys like me,” Ovechkin said. “You can compare Edmonton to us in our first years. Difference is lots of cameras around them. In our first years, maybe we had one camera.”

“Everybody knows who we are. Even (Tuesday) night, when we went to a restaurant, a guy said he had been working there eight years and couldn’t wait to see us,” said Ovechkin. “That was nice . . . but he didn’t give us free meal.”

Who will bail me out? That's interesting. Ovi is the last to answer.





Ovi (today): "Their first line is pretty sick"

(Reaction): "Eh?"

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