Famous characters

Alexander Ovechkin

Biography

Ovechkin was born in the USSR in 1985, and is the son of the basketball player

and champion of two Olympic gold medals in 1976 and 1980, Tatiana Ovéchkina.

He showed interest in ice hockey from an early age and started playing when he

was 7 years old.

Race

Dynamo Moscow

He joined the Dynamo Moscow hockey section system, making his professional

debut at the age of 16 in the 2001-02 season of the Russian League. In 2004 he

won the league award for best left winger and became the youngest player in

Dynamo history to lead the team in scoring.

In addition to his achievements at Dynamo, he won two gold medals with the

Russian junior hockey team at the 2002 and 2003 World Cups.

Washington Capitals
Ovechkin was the first pick in the draft in 2004, going to the Washington Capitals.

A year before, the Florida Panthers tried to hire him, but the player did not come of

age in two days. Although his debut was scheduled for the same season in which

he was hired, the NHL strike in the 2004-05 season delayed his debut to the next

campaign. His first game was on October 5, 2005, scoring two goals, and he had a

debut season in which he even scored a beautiful goal against the Phoenix

Coyotes that was acclaimed by the sports and specialized press.1 Finally, after

leading all rookies in statistics for goals, points, power play goals, and shots,

Ovechkin was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy for rookie of the year. In

addition, he was called up by the senior Russian national team and appeared on

the NHL All-Star team in 2006 and 2007.

Connor MC David

Biography and race

Connor Andrew McDavid (born January 13, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice

hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League

(NHL). Having been selected first overall by the Oilers in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft,

McDavid won the Art Ross Trophy three times as the league's leading scorer, the

Hart Memorial Trophy, awarded to the player deemed most valuable to his team, in

2017 and 2021, and the Ted Lindsay Award three times as the best player voted

by the NHL Players Association. Additionally, McDavid is one of only two

unanimous Hart Trophy winners in league history, joining Wayne Gretzky.

McDavid grew up in the Toronto area and played hockey there, and was awarded

"Outstanding Player" status by Hockey Canada, allowing him to play junior major a

year earlier. Therefore, he joined the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League

(OHL) and spent three years with the Otters before being selected first overall by

the Oilers in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. McDavid played for Canada's junior

national team in one World Under-18 Championship, two World Junior

Championships, and for the senior team in one World Championship, winning one
gold at each level. McDavid is considered the best player in the National Hockey

League (NHL) by most NHL fans, as well as his peers.

Personal life

McDavid was born in 1997 in Richmond Hill, Ontario to Brian and Kelly McDavid.

He has an older brother named Cameron. McDavid first skated at age 3 and began

playing hockey the following year; their parents lied about their age because the

participants had to be 5 years old. When McDavid was 6 years old, the hockey

association in his home town of New market did not allow him to play above his

age group. Instead of having him play at the lower level, McDavid's parents signed

him up for a team in nearby Aurora, where he played against players as young as

9 years old. McDavid later joined the York-Simcoe Express, a team in Aurora,

Ontario, where he was coached by his father, Brian; the team would go on to win

four Ontario Minor Hockey Association Championships.