Tom Wilson Uses Ovechkin Nap Story to Explain Final Season
Alex Ovechkin has announced that this will be his final NHL season, and Tom Wilson, his longest-serving Washington teammate, struggled to imagine the locker room without him. Wilson joked that the closest comparison so far was an hour-long nap Ovechkin took away from the team. Ovechkin, who has 929 goals in 1,575 games, told his teammates before making the news public and received a standing ovation; Wilson called him the greatest captain in Capitals history.
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