Ovechkin Keeps Training In Russia As Retirement Looms

Alex Ovechkin is still putting in the work back home in Russia while the retirement chatter keeps hanging around him. That is how it goes with legends near the end - the questions never stop, and neither does the routine that built the career in the first place. Every workout becomes part of the larger evaluation, even when the player is not the one talking. If this is the final stretch, the hockey world is watching every clue like it is a game tape cut-up.