Hockey players “Washington Capitals” will play the NHL regular season match with “Anaheim” in a special team in memory of the father of their captain Alexander Ovechkin – Mikhail.
The sticker has the words “Papa Ovi”. According to American journalists, the club plans to use these stickers on helmets until the end of the 2022/23 season.
It was previously reported that 37-year-old Alexander Ovechkin will play the first match on the evening of February 24 after a short vacation he took and returned to Moscow due to his father’s illness. On February 15, Mikhail Ovechkin died at the age of 72.