Calls On Alex Ovechkin's NHL Future
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So our friend Tariq al-Bashir, who joined us a few days ago on the show, he tweeted within the last 40 minutes, a screenshot of the article he wrote for Ovi's first game on Thursday, October 6, 2005. |
| 0:13.9 | Some remarkable symmetry. |
| 0:15.2 | It was against a Columbus bluejackets. |
| 0:17.5 | Ovi's been playing so long. |
| 0:18.9 | The game was at MCI Center. |
| 0:21.5 | Okay? Still the same building |
| 0:22.8 | But at least two names ago |
| 0:24.9 | Because it's now Capital One Arena |
| 0:26.2 | It was previously Verizon Center |
| 0:28.1 | And then it was MCI Center |
| 0:29.5 | I believe to begin |
| 0:30.9 | So he scored two goals in that game |
| 0:34.3 | Is this going to be his final game tonight |
| 0:36.5 | Against the same Columbus Blue Jackets team That he started his career against? I think it should be too, so he built multifaceted. Is he coming back and do you want him back? Right. I think for sure, we've all gone on a record. I think he is coming back. And here's the evidence. How would you not want him back? Well, you just want to move on. You just want to move on with young players and development. I'm not ready to move on. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm not ready to move on. You just want to move on with young players and development. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm not ready to move on. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm not ready. |
| 0:58.7 | That's all. |
| 0:59.2 | You say, oh, he's a liability defensively. |
| 1:01.7 | I don't care about that. |
| 1:02.9 | He's given me too much joy and excitement and entertainment over two plus decades |
| 1:08.6 | that if he wants to come back, |
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