Ovechkin for President?
In a surprising turn of events, the NHL managed to garner the cover story on ESPN the Magazine courtesy of Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. The fun feature uses the upcoming presidential election and the Caps’ location in DC to tie in the change brought on by the infectious personality of Ovie.
Photo Courtesy of ESPN
You can view an amusing behind the scenes video of the photo shoot for the ESPN article here.
In other Ovechkin news, the Capitals shot their intro jumbotron video earlier this week with Ovie featured as the lead rocker of the band. The video over a Puck Daddy was quite entertaining!
And finally, Ovechkin was named Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Hockey ’08 cover athlete in conjunction with the partnership of Yahoo! Sports and the NHL, who have teamed up to provide a co-branded game. Not only will it have the typical fantasy hockey stats and features, but it’s the first fantasy game to have player highlights integrated throughout the offering so you can watch player videos available on team rosters and lists to help you make the right draft or line-up choice.
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September 28th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
You can pretty much use this as an example of why the 4 letter network is so out of touch with things. Even if it is presented as fantasy, do they realize that Ovechkin needs to be a natural born American to be President?
September 28th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Michael - ESPN obviously knows that Ovechkin is Russian and couldn’t be president. It was mentioned in the article (I believe) and they laughed about it in the behind the scenes video. The feature was all in good fun!
October 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I like the pictures in the background… hahahaha