Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the authorOttawa hockey players look at the championship calendar with particular displeasure when they see it as the day of the meeting with Washington. For the Senators — and for most NHL clubs — the Capitals are truly a «Try to Neutralize Alexander Ovechkin» test, and they can't be said to be up to it. In the last three full-time matches, the captain of the “capital” upset the goalkeepers of “Ottawa” six times. Only in the previous match of the current season with the Senators, Ovi scored a double and set a new league record for the number of road games (84) in an NHL career in which he scored at least two goals, surpassing Wayne Gretzky in this. Therefore, the words spoken by the main Canadian club coach Dee Jay Smith on the eve of the next game with the Capitals, no one was surprised. «Every time we talk about him, he scores two or three goals for us. And usually he needs literally half a moment. What he does is — it's just incredible. It feels like Ovechkin looks better with every game. He doesn't age at all! We need to do everything possible to deprive him of any opportunities, «the Ottawa mentor complained.
