Confirmed Signing with Link: [WSH] F Alex Ovechkin re-signs with the Capitals (5 years, $9.5M AAV)

[Billy Kvcmu]

Term is scary
Has to be done though

 

[KingsFan7824]

Paid him for the Cup. Hefty deal for a 36 year old, but he gets to stay there with his Cup buddies. Maybe break a record, kill some time, but the winning days are done. Caps seem cool with it though, so, more power to them.

 

[abbbaron]

this comes with some kind of skin condition attached to those last couple years?

 

[MrHeiskanen]

5 years wow

Good for him!!!

His wife is hot.

That's his wife? Looks like his daughter.

 

[abo9]

5 more years 5 years that other goalscorers will have to live in his shadow

 

[Over the volcano]

Good to see him take a hometown discount for the fans

 

[Kranix]

lol at people going 'little steep for a guy his age.' Who do you think you're talking about here Jeremy Roenick?

 

[shtorm2005]

He will try to do it in 4 years to retire earlier.

 

[Hivemind]

Can his body last 5 more years?

Russian Machine Never Breaks

 

[Zerotonine]

5 years. 164 goals to go. 32.8 per year.

I dont see him putting 30 up in the 3rd year let alone 4th and 5th but best of luck to him

 

[SML2]

Ovechkin is gonna break the record, he's 36 and showing no signs of slowing down...
Father time: "Break is over, time to get back to work"

 

[waitin425]

Congrats Caps...was praying for the Habs to get him but knew it was a pipe dream

 

[Puckstop40]

I really hope he gets the record. That would be something we may never see again. He’s be even closer without these shortened seasons.

 

[Extra Texture]

Lmao that top Twitter reply "win a real Cup"

Wtf does that even mean? How was his 2018 victory not "real?"

Looking for reason or sense among sports fans on twitter is a waste of time. A bunch of halfwits shouting RATIO and repeating stupid nicknames like Penaldo.

They make the HF main boards seem like the School of Athens.

 

[SenzZen]

Congrats! Great news for the hockey world!

 

[Joel Ward]

Such good news. Say what you want about the term and his age, I'm just happy to have Ovechkin in the NHL for 5 more seasons (fingers crossed).

 

[Bomber0104]

My keeper league thanks you Alex.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Wouldn't surprise me if Washington sign Johnny Gaudreau next summer just to put him on a line with Ovy and Backstrom so that he can get to that record quicker.

 

[Unbiased Fan]

Yeah the 5th year is gonna be awful... probably sub 50 goals

Sub 50? I’m guessing sub 20 as a 40 year old.

 

[Varan]

I’m just waiting on the usual OV haters to come in and say how Crosby is better

 

[Kreator]

Way too much money and term.....but he deserves it...a legacy contract and a massive thankyou from the Caps. Had to be done.

 

[EdJovanovski]

He's breaking the record.

 

[Hivemind]

Wouldn't surprise me if Washington sign Johnny Gaudreau next summer just to put him on a line with Ovy and Backstrom so that he can get to that record quicker.

Gaudreau and Ovechkin are both left wings.

Also cap space.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

5 years is a lot of term for him. I wonder how that 5th year will be.

Very profitable for the Caps is how it will be.

 

[3074326]

A lot of money, but it's Ovechkin.

I’m just waiting on the usual OV haters to come in and say how Crosby is better

Three pages in and you're the first person to mention Crosby.. weird move