Over the final eight games of the NHL regular season, Ovechkin scored eight goals. Seravalli wondered what had happened to the Russian in Dubai.
Ovechkin has scored points in nine straight games for the first time since 2019
“The lack of goals this season was not the result of a lack of confidence. The problem was not that Bäckström was no longer part of the team. If you look at last season’s results, Ovechkin could still score 40 goals, and Bäckström did not give him a single effective transfer.
This season, Ovechkin’s problem was his skating. He couldn’t get to the spots where he scored from. He didn’t really move. Naturally, I had a question: what happened in Dubai? Since then, he has looked like a different player,” quotes the Dailyfaceoff journalist.
Source: Sport
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