Capitals Honor Ovechkin Before Game Against Kings

Photo: Washington Capitals

After recording his 1,000th career point at the Verizon Center on January 21, Alex Ovechkin was honored before this afternoon’s game at home against the Los Angeles Kings.

Ovechkin was joined by his mother Tatiana, his father Mikhail, and wife Nastya, and was presented with a Tiffany crystal and a golden stick with his career milestones by Capitals Owner Ted Leonsis, Team President Dick Patrick, and NHL Senior Vice President Jim Gregory.

Check out the entire #Ovech1Kin Ceremony for @Ovi8 featuring messages from his teammates plus gifts from the @NHL and the #Caps. #RockTheRed pic.twitter.com/z4Fd7rbcMP

— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) February 5, 2017

As mentioned above, Ovechkin recorded his 1,000th career point on January 21 on a goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Coming into this afternoon’s game, he has 1,013 points. He led the Caps in goals with 25 coming into today’s game, and third in goals in the NHL. Ovechkin is the Capitals’ all-time leader in both points and goals and sat at 80th all-time in league history coming into today’s game.

Congratulations Alex !

By Michael Fleetwood

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Michael Fleetwood was born into a family of diehard Capitals fans and has been watching games as long as he can remember. He was born the year the Capitals went to their first Stanley Cup Final, and is a diehard Caps fan, the owner of the very FIRST Joe Beninati jersey and since then, has met Joe himself. Michael joined the NoVa Caps team in 2015, and is most proud of the growth of the NoVa Caps community in that time. An avid photographer, Michael resides in VA.

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