Former Russian national team football player Dmitry Sichev told he was following the match Alexandra Ovechkina in the NHL and admires the achievements of the Russian captain “Washington”.
Ovechkin has played for Washington since 2005, in 2018 the striker won the Stanley Cup. With 809 regular season goals in the NHL, the 37-year-old is the second-highest scorer in league history. Wayne Gretzky is number one with 894 goals.
– Are you interested in Alexander Ovechkin’s NHL record race?
– Ovechkin is very interesting for everyone in our football family. We constantly talk about his accomplishments. The interest is limitless, and I think we live in a historical time when this Gretzky record should collapse. And we will all rejoice for Sasha.
– Can we compare Ovechkin to Zinedine Zidane, with whom did you cross paths in France? When a person walks into the room, and everyone gets up. It is the scale of society.
– It’s hard to compare. But Ovechkin is huge. He is incomparable to anyone, is alone. Basically parentheses. You can probably draw parallels with Messi and Ronaldo. Ovechkin is pretty much the same piece,” Sychev told .
Ovechkin has 48 points (29 goals and 19 assists) in 43 NHL games this season.
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Source : MatchTV
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