Double Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov believes that the Russian captain of the “Washington” Alexander Ovechkin In the United States, the monument will be erected faster than in Russia.
On Tuesday, Washington defeated Detroit in the NHL regular season (2:1), Ovechkin scored his 30th goal this season eight seconds before the end of the second period. The Russian now has eighteen seasons in which he has scored at least 30 goals, which is a new NHL record. Ovechkin surpassed Canadian Mike Gartner, who had a similar 17 seasons.
— Everyone respects Ovechkin, but his enemies don’t respect him. But everyone has their own worldview on everything. I think they will erect a monument to him more quickly in America, then here. After all, he plays there, breaks records there. They should therefore be the first to erect a monument to our hockey player there.
I lived there, good people live there. In the USA, there are normal guys, starting with the police (laughs). Everyone treats Russians very well. People will donate money and build a monument, just like the Canadiens once gave our team the Cup.
As soon as Ovechkin beats Gretzky’s record, a monument will be erected to him. And we will come back to this later, because according to our law you cannot go bankrupt during your lifetime,” Kojevnikov said, as quoted by Legalbet.
Ovechkin increased his number of goals in regular NHL championships to 852 and reduced the gap with Canadian Wayne Gretzky’s sniper record (894) to 42 goals.
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