Ovechkin to be first Russian Torchbearer for Sochi

... 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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