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“Wow, You Know My Name”: Blue Jackets’ Kirill Marchenko Gushes After Meeting Idol Alex Ovechkin
31 ÿíâàðÿ 2023 ãîäà. https://novacapsfans.com Since he entered the National Hockey League, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has become not only the inspiration to scores of young hockey players in the DMV, but in his native Russia. Ahead of the Caps’ Tuesday night matchup against the Columbus Blue Jackets, one of those young players responded like a kid in a candy store when asked about meeting his idol. While it will be purely competitive in Columbus on Wednesday night, Russian players from both teams met the night before for dinner, among them Blue Jackets’ star rookie Kirill Marchenko, who lit up when asked about meeting Ovechkin. “Wow, you know my name”, Marchenko told reporters prior to tonight’s contest, “It’s cool…I’m very happy. We talk no hockey, only life. For me it’s a great dinner.” Ovechkin, who is in his 18th season in the league, was asked to reflect on his status as a mentor for young Russian players coming into the league. “He’s great, we met up, lots of Russians went for dinner, talk, have some stories, and yeah it’s pretty cool. I try do my best, obviously I can tell ‘follow me, look at me’, but it’s nice if young players growing up look at how I play, what I’m doing out there, it’s pretty cool.” Marchenko, who is tied for second in the NHL among Rookies with 13 goals with Dallas’ Wyatt Johnston, showed his admiration for the league’s second all-time leading goal-scorer when given the suggestion he could score a goal against Washington. “I hope, no, no, when he stays on the ice?”, he responded, “No, no, he sits on the bench then I can score, if he stay on the ice, then no goal. I joking, I joking”, he said smiling. The rookie forward’s 13 goals makes him just the fourth player in NHL history, and the first in almost a century, to have the first 13 pr more points of his career come via lighting the lamp. Through his first 25 Games Played, he had joined a notable list of his countrymen in Goals Scored. Most goals - Russian player in their first 25 career NHL Gms: 15- Dmitri Kvartalnov 15- Alex Ovechkin 15- Evgeni Malkin 14- Sergei Nemchinov 13- Nikolai Borschevsky 12- Andrei Kuzmenko 11- #CBJ Kirill Marchenko 11- Alex Kovalev 11- Sergei Fedorov 11- Ilya Kovalchuk |
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