Alexander Ovechkin: "I was told: "Ovi, you is necessary to us for five years"

The captain of "Washington" Alexander Ovechkin told how passed negotiations on the new contract with club. "I was not going to leave anywhere. I wanted to sign contract for three years. But I was told: "Ovi, you is necessary to us for five years" — Alexander Ovechkin joked. Also the Russian answered a habitual question of a pursuit of a snapeyrsky record Wayne Douglas Grettski. "It will be difficult. But never you know, what waits for you in the future, truly? " — the journalist Ian Hollande quotes the Russian in Twitter. The Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin signed the new contract with club. The agreement is calculated on 5 years, the forward...