NOVOGORSK (Moscow region), July 14, Sergey Fuks. NHL club captain «Washington Capitals» Alexander Ovechkin visited the base of the Moscow hockey club «Dynamo». On Thursday, «Dynamo» holds an open training session for the media. After that, the team will go to the training camp in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The first control game of the «white-and-blue» is scheduled for July 30 — with Novokuznetsk «Metallurg». In June, Ovechkin signed a contract for one match with the MHC «Dynamo» and played in a friendly match against the amateur team «Amkal» (5: 0). The hockey player entered the field in the starting lineup with the captain's armband and opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Ovechkin is 36 years old, in 2018 the captain of Washington won the Stanley Cup with the club. The Russian, with 780 goals, is the third-best scorer in league history behind Gordie Howe (801) and Wayne Gretzky (894).
