Ovechkin will miss the last pre-season game before the start of the NHL season
The captain of “Washington” will not play with “Philadelphia”, the meeting will be held on the night of September 27 Moscow time
“Washington Capitals” published in the social network X lineup for the upcoming final preseason match of the NHL against the Philadelphia Flyers. There is no Russian captain Alexander Ovechkin.
The 41-year-old Russian missed all the Capitals exhibition matches.
I’m not going to say that he’s not playing in pre-season, but we think that even if he’s 90 or 95 percent ready, what’s the point of rushing him to the ice? We'd love to see him in action, but it's just pre-season games. So we'll give him extra time - however much it takes - to get him in one hundred percent form; that's more important than playing a few games, Washington head coach Spencer Carbury said.
On September 21, it became known that the Russian was injured in the “lower body”. Ovechkin missed two days of training, but then returned to work with the team.
The match against Philadelphia will be held on the night of September 27 Moscow time.
The Capitals will begin the regular NHL championship game against the Carolina Hurricanes, the reigning Stanley Cup winner, on October 2.
