Former head coach of the Russian national team Vladimir Pluschev believes that the turning point will not allow the leader of Washington Alexander Ovechkin will appear on the ice in 2024.
During the third period of the NHL regular season game against Utah, Ovechkin was hit in the knee in a collision with Jack McBain. Based on the results of the examination, it became known that the 39-year-old hockey player had a fracture of the left fibula – Ovechkin was absent for the longest period in 20 seasons in the NHL. He will miss at least four weeks.
— How will such a long absence affect the player?
— I have said many times that hockey is a contact game. Regarding the injury: if it is indeed a fracture, as they say according to the latest information, then at best he will return in early 2025. Ovechkin must recover properly and get back on track. What happened happened. No one is safe from this,” Pliushchev said in “Sport Day by Day”.
In just 20 NHL seasons, Ovechkin has missed 59 games, 35 of them due to injury.
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