Capitals' Ovechkin to be first Russian torch-bearer on road to Sochi Olympics

... e would let his captain go. "I'm very excited," Ovechkin said earlier this month at the league's player media tour in Newark, N.J. "I'm going to play at home in front of Russian fans, family. It's going to be fun, it's going to be cool."

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