Alexander Ovechkin Bio And Images-Pictures

 With all the recent controversy over his latest goal celebration (completely unnecessary if you ask me but that is another article) I decided it was time to write about Mr. Alex Ovechkin.  If there has been a more “exciting” player in hockey in the last 20 years, I am not sure who it could possibly be.  The man combines amazing skill, speed, physical domination and a boyish enthusiasm for the game that has never been seen before. Maybe it helped that both of Ovechkin’s parents were good athletes as well?  Alex was born on September 17, 1985 to Mikhail Ovechkin, a former soccer player and Tatyana Ovechkina, a winner of two Olympic gold medals with the Russian Women’s Basketball team in 1976 and 1980.