Happy 40th birthday to The Great 8, Alexander Ovechkin . Playing left wing for the Washington Capitals since 2004, he is quite simply among the greatest goal scorers in the history of ice hockey. He has won the Hart Memorial Trophy for Most Valuable Player three times (in 2008, 2009, and 2013), the Lester B. Pearson Award for Best Player as voted on by the National Hockey League Players’ Association three times (2008, 2009, 2010) and the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy, awarded annually to the NHL’s leading goal scorer, an NHL-record nine times. READ about his life and career… (1985)

His mother was a world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist in basketball, and his father was also a professional footballer in Russia. In early childhood, he would not allow his parents to swit

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