Alex Ovechkin’s last season in the NHL: his wife adds insult to injury

In an exclusive interview with aif.ru’s Olga Shablinskaya, Nastya Ovechkina stated that her husband would play the final year of his contract with the Washington Capitals, after which they would move to Moscow.

She thus made it clear that the next campaign will most likely be Ovechkina’s last in the NHL, and that afterwards, when he’s 40, he’ll move with his family to his hometown, where it all began for him.

It now remains to be seen whether Ovechkin will decide to play in the KHL by signing a contract in Moscow.

In short, even though the Washington Capitals have denied the rumour that Ovechkin will retire after next season, everything points in that direction, especially with his own wife talking about it as the plan.

It should also be noted that Nastya Ovechkina stated in her interview that the 2024-2025 season had been very difficult for her husband, because he felt so much pressure to break Gretzky’s record.

Now that it’s done, Ovechkina simply wants her husband to have fun in his final season, doing what he loves best – playing hockey.

In the end, it’s clearly a shame to feel the end coming for such a great legend, and especially, one might have hoped that he would perhaps try to reach the 1,000-goal plateau, but well, we can understand that enough is enough.

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