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Alex Ovechkin Reaches 200 Points

I know you’re not interested in hockey. We do a lot of demographic research around here and know that most of our readers live in the United States, so chances are you’re more interested in receiving a sherry enema than you are in whatever news comes out of the NHL.

And while most of the time we try to please the customer, we feel it is our duty sometimes to give you the information you need, like an edumacation on Alex Ovechkin who last night scored his 200th point as an NHLer.

Did you know, for example, that Alex was born in Moscow and that his mom is former Soviet Olympic basketball player Tatyana Ovechkina? I bet you didn’t know he played for HC Dynamo Moscow as a youngster and was named Best Left Wing in the Superleague when he was 16-years old. He donates eight Capitals season tickets to soldiers and needy children through his charity organization, because he’s a swell guy like that. Of that I am sure you were unaware. You probably also did not know that Ovechkin listens to hip-hop and R&B music and likes video games.

Would you like to see Ovechkin in action? Here’s a video of one of his goals from 2006 that Bill Clement called “one of the greatest goals of all time.” It’s pretty amazing:

See, there’s a lot about Alex Ovechkin you didn’t know. Until now. So start watching hockey.

(Note to Gary Bettman: This is just one of the many ways you and your highly paid staff of marketing “experts” can get the word out about hockey to an apathetic US audience. It’s pretty easy, no? I’ll be expecting a check in the mail for consulting services rendered.)

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