Ovechkin and Wideman got into fight

Katie Carrera @kcarrera

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Tensions running high at #Caps practice. Ovechkin and Wideman got into it a bit, exchanged some slashes, shoves and stared each other down.

"I will break you!" said Ovi with terrible Russian accent. :-)

Brian McNally @bmcnally14

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Alex Ovechkin + Dennis Wideman both laughed off their slashing incident in practice this morning. Wides: Ovi was asking about dinner plans

Tarik El-Bashir @TarikElBashir

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Dale Hunter said he didn't mind Ovechkin and Wideman getting into shoving/slashing match at practice. More intensity is good, Hunts said.

Tarik El-Bashir @TarikElBashir

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GMGM on Ovi vs. Wideman at practice: "Actually that would have been a good one. That would have been the Rock star vs. the All-Star." #Caps

Tarik El-Bashir @TarikElBashir

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Hunts on Ovi vs. Wides: "Ovi must have gotten slashed ... on the hand. That’s the intensity that we need in practice and in games."

Katie Carrera, Capitals Insider:

Ovechkin and Wideman exchanged a few more words throughout the practice but after the on-ice session both players dismissed the incident.

“He said he didn’t like the stick he was using, so he wanted to break it. So he broke it,” Wideman said grinning. “And I say, ‘Are you happy?’ He says ‘Yeah.’ Then he said, ‘Do you want to go for dinner tonight?’ I was like alright, and that was that. We went back and continued the drill.”

Said Ovechkin: Wideman “said play against me hard, like in a game, so I just did. It’s something that he asked me to do, so I did it.”

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