In addition to rocking his best friend, Ovechkin is now rocking the rest of the NHL. Good stuff. Not even a little bit. All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks. You are free to share, copy, and remix this content so long as it is attributed, done for noncommercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.
To Search, type and hit enter. And instead of leaving him alone in the hotel where he had no idea how to get to practice, the General Manager offered to let him stay at his place.
Question: Did Ovechkin quickly fit in with the team at the training camp, on both the ice and in the locker room? He is an easy person to get along with. He wanted to communicate with people, he himself liked to joke, and did not take offense when others joked with him. He laid a hit on someone [defenseman Radoslav Suchy] and drove him so hard towards the edge of the rink that the protective glass shattered!
DZ: Exactly! At that moment, I realized that he is a very unusual player for Russia and Europe, in general. He can play physical, and score a goal, and give hits … He has the physical part of the game — and, moreover, he likes it.
This is very good for the NHL. When something does not work out on ice, sometimes you need to hit someone. Or even to get hit. Physical play helps you get involved in the game. We sometimes talked about this, that sometimes even such moments, and not goals, change the game.
And sometimes he himself felt that he needed it. He caught someone and hit him hard to feel better. DZ: I think yes. Usually Europeans are pure skill players.
And then he really got physical when hitting a man broke the glass. Zubrus went onto talk about his memories of Ovechkin wishing to room with a North American on road trips so that he could learn English [his road roommate was Brian Willsie].
Ovechkin could have taken the path of least resistance and roomed with Zubrus, who was the only other Russian speaker on the team during his rookie year.
That was the opposite of many Russians who have come over to the NHL who, even after 10 years, spoke English no better than they had as rookies. DZ: Sasha was completely different. He wanted not only to be able to express his thoughts, but to understand jokes in the locker room in order to fully integrate himself into the life of the team, the NHL life. Chicago Blackhawks. Injured Avalanche star MacKinnon out 3 weeks.
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