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Aeroflot Flight 3739 [1] was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a stopover in Kurgan.On 8 March 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought to defect from the Soviet Union.
Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ове́чкин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐˈvʲetɕkʲɪn]; [n 1] born 17 September 1985, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).
As the NHL entered its second lockout in eight years in 2012–13, Datsyuk followed other prominent NHL players, such as Washington Capitals winger and captain Alexander Ovechkin and Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin, in playing overseas while the lockout was in effect; he signed with CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on ...
Alexander Ovechkin scored 50 goals for a ninth time in his career during the 2021–22 season. This tied Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy for the record of most all-time seasons. Scoring 50 goals in one season is one of the most celebrated individual achievements in the National Hockey League (NHL). [ 1 ]
Sudden Death [265] Flash Hollett: Flash [266] Niklas Hjalmarsson: ... Alexander Ovechkin: Ovi, Alexander the Great, The Great Eight, Ov8chkin, Ovie, O, Mama Bear
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On March 3, 2008, the Capitals defeated the Boston Bruins at home by a score of 10–2. [6] Alexander Ovechkin scored three goals in the game. It was the first time that the Capitals had scored 10 goals in a regular season game since January 11, 2003, when they defeated the Florida Panthers at home by a score of 12–2.
Ovechkin and Mike Green were named to the Sporting News All-Star team, with Ovechkin being the Sporting News Player of the Year. [ 11 ] The 2008–09 season was highlighted by the play of Mike Green (who was the third of the Capitals' three first-round selections in Ovechkin's draft year) and Ovechkin.