Athletistic / Hockey. Former Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz explained how Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin worried about failures. The Russian was upset that he was noticeably inferior in terms of trophies won to the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby.

By that time, the Canadian hockey player had already won three Stanley Cups and won the Olympic Games in Sochi. Additionally, Pittsburgh has knocked Washington out of the Stanley Cup playoffs several times.

Crosby talked about possible meeting with Ovechkin at dinner

“Ovechkin took those losses very hard. We had an honest conversation with him. He thought the only way to do his job was to score. And he did that a lot in the games against Pittsburgh. But I told him that his legacy is not those goals,” Trotz said in The Athletic.


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