Caught on cocaine hockey player Ovechkin Kuznetsov compared with Jesus

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Forward «Washington» Evgeny Kuznetsov told about his attitude to the achievements of the team captain Alexander Ovechkin, who in a few seasons can beat the historic record for number of goals in the NHL.

«The closer he gets to some records, the more you start to understand who you’re working in the locker room, playing with. I think it’s just your friend, teammate, and then look at the statistics: what am I, Jesus play?» — quoted Kuznetsova «SE».

Now Ovechkin is in 12th place in the list of the best snipers in the NHL with a score of 672 goals. In that case, if in the next seasons, Ovechkin will continue to score 50 goals by the spring of 2024, he will be able to beat the record of Wayne Gretzky, who scored 894 career goals.

In the current regular season Ovechkin played 22 matches in which he scored 24 points. On account of the captain «Washington» — 14 goals and ten assists.

Kuznetsov is playing in the same team with Ovechkin in the spring of 2014. The striker moved to the «Washington» from Chelyabinsk «Tractor». The current contract with Kuznetsov, «capitals» is calculated till 2025.

At the start of the current NHL season Kuznetsov missed three games: he should be suspended for cocaine use. In the regular season 2019/20 hockey played 19 games, scored nine goals, had 11 assists.