All Hail Alexander the Great!
From the Puck Daddy blog, which is plucked from the Alex Ovetjkin blog: An interview with Alexander Ovechkin. A few of the comments:

"The Ovechkin interview, also from Russia's Sport-Express, is much more entertaining and at times rather hilarious. It's also longer than a Tolstoy version of The Iliad, so here are some selected passages for your perusal and amusement."

Tolstoy version of The Iliad is so being used to describe meetings from here on in. Fuck you Dennis Miller!

"You've brought the souvenir from the Worlds, the Canadian silver dollar.

Before the game started our team had a meeting in the center circle, and at these moments I always go down on my knees. And I looked down "Wow! A coin under the ice!" Canadians planted the silver dollar for good luck. And Ilya Nikulin and I decided that if we win the championship, we'll break through the ice and get this coin.

Did you have to break sweat to penetrate the ice?

It turned out easier than I thought. I hit the ice with the heel of the skate and that was it. The coin could be seen through the ice, I was pecking not just blindly, but with a direction. I gave the dollar to Nikulin, he'll make two small pendants for me and himself.

So the Lucky Loonie is now commemorative jewelry for a pair of Russian hockey players. Most of Canada just felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Because something terrible has happened."

Canada, Hockey & Star Wars references. High end.

"But what about the case when you broke a tooth, and got another 15 stitches on your face?

It was really nothing.

15 stitches and nothing?!

It was not lethal. They stitched me right in a locker room."

This dude is hardcore. Are you sure he's not Canadian?

"Who in your team is known as crazy driver? About whom are the legends made?

The legends are made about Semin and me! I normally try to drive carefully. Only once, because I was late to the team's training, I accelerated to 165 miles per hour. You can convert yourself how much it is in kilometers. And the flying ended, the police stopped me near White House.

Did you get a fine?

I've exceeded the speed limit in more than three times, for that in the United States a fine is not enough. They take your license and put you in jail. But I was lucky. The police recognized me and let me go. I gave them 10 tickets that I had with me to the Washington Capitals game."

Just for those who can't convert to KPH, it's 264. Also that means he was driving a car that was capable of a) getting that fast and b) getting that fast in a big hurry.

All Hail!