Alexander Ovechkin in love?

Ok so thanks to the hockey blog Alex Ovetjkin for putting me up on this one. Thanks to them we now know that the NHL’s 100 Million dollar man is in love, or something. And it’s all thanks to a Russian Dating website.

So how did they meet exactly you ask? Check out this translated part of an article from Sovetsky Sport. Thanks to fanhouse for the translation.

Q.: Alex said that you two met over the internet. Could you tell the details?

A: Yes, we met through the site “Odnoklassniki”. I love sports, and I am a long time fan of Moscow Dynamo. I had a friend Anton Shunin, who is a goalkeeper of Moscow Dynamo soccer club. And he had a friend Sasha Ovechkin. I clicked on his profile just for surfing. I didn’t believe he was a real one. There are a lot of fake ones at “Odnoklassniki” site! The site allows you to see who visited your profile. All of a sudden I am receiving a message from Ovechkin! He was asking something about our mutual friends. I answered, but didn’t take it seriously. I thought he was a bogus Ovechkin. I even told him it was a shame to fake Ovechkin. And he answered with a bunch of exclamation and question marks, “You don’t believe me??!!”

I didn’t believe him for the whole week while he was trying to prove he was real. He was giving the names of Dynamo players, etc., but you can find it on internet. And finally he said, “Ok, buy the newspaper ‘Sovetsky Sport’ for Nov. 29 and you will see.” I opened your newspaper and read in his interview “I want to say hello to ‘SPY’!”. And SPY was my name on “Odnoklassniki” site.

It’s very interesting because Ovechkin just signed a contract worth $124 million so you’d think that he would have females on call. Not so fast. According to Ovie, he really doesn’t go out that much except to hang out with his parents. I guess the rest of his free time is spent on the internet. If only it were that easy for the rest of us, $100 million might help though.