{"id":143775,"date":"2025-08-14T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143775\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:57:13","slug":"alex-ovechkin-to-participate-in-pavel-datsyuks-magic-game-in-yekaterinburg-i-cant-miss-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143775\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin to participate in Pavel Datsyuk\u2019s \u2018Magic Game\u2019 in Yekaterinburg: \u2018I can\u2019t miss this day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Ovechkin<\/strong> has at least one more exhibition game in him before returning to Washington, DC in September.<\/p>\n

After participating in the Ovi Cup gala match on Saturday (where his son outscored him<\/a>), the Capitals captain said he will be in attendance for Pavel Datsyuk\u2019s \u201cMagic Game\u201d on August 30 at the UGMK Arena. Datsyuk was the captain of the team opposite Ovechkin\u2019s at the Ovi Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I will definitely fly to Pasha [in Yekaterinburg],\u201d Ovechkin said per the game\u2019s Telegram account<\/a> and a translation by Google Translate. \u201cI can\u2019t miss this day, especially since we had a wonderful conversation with Datsyuk when he played in the gala match in Mytishchi at the Ovechkin Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Datsyuk\u2019s World Hockey All-Star Game, Ovechkin will reunite with former Capitals teammates Alex Semin, Sergei Fedorov, and Ilya Kovalchuk, who have all confirmed their participation.<\/p>\n

Other players scheduled to attend<\/a> include Sergei Gonchar<\/a>, Viacheslav Fetisov, Kirill Kaprizov, Alexander Radulov, Nikita Gusev, Alexey Morozov, Danis Zaripov, Sergey Mozyakin, and Valeri Kamensky. Datsyuk added<\/a> that Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau are considering attending. Though one of his close friends with the Detroit Red Wings, Henrik Zetterberg, will not.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was afraid to go to Russia, like many foreigners,\u201d Datsyuk, now 47, said per Match TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the game went on sale Wednesday. Players will wear, per HC Avtomobilist<\/a>, special burgundy and beige retro jerseys inspired by the sweaters from the 2014 NHL Winter Classic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking forward to this day and are sure that it will be memorable for all fans and hockey players,\u201d Datsyuk said in a statement through the team<\/a>. \u201cOur hockey jersey will become an important part of these memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition game will mark Ovechkin\u2019s third major outing of the offseason. His first appearance on the ice came at the annual \u201cMatch of the Year\u201d charity event in July, where he was gifted a car<\/a>, scored a goal<\/a>, and operated a t-shirt gun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Datsyuk game appears likely to be Ovechkin\u2019s last before Capitals\u2019 training camp begins next month. He reportedly will return to the United States in early September<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin has at least one more exhibition game in him before returning to Washington, DC in September.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-143775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115024405855047464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}