Ovechkin presents the Moscow Stanley Cup: how are you going? – NHL News – Hockey

Every year, the team that won the Stanley Cup makes it available for 100 days. To participate in the championship parade, sponsorship and charity events, each player and coach receives it in personal possession for a day or two. At the request of players and coaches, the NHL's main trophy can be delivered to any agreed location. No matter where he was, even in the combat zone in Afghanistan, although for another reason, Bob Probert, Dave Williams, Ron Tagnat and other well-known hockey players brought him there. down to support American and Canadian soldiers. he visited more than once. For the first time, he was brought here by the winners of the 1997 Silver Cup with the Detroit, Igor Larionov, Vyacheslav Fetisov and Vyacheslav Kozlov, after being exposed to the public on Red Square. To do this, I had to convince the Hall of Hockey Glory representatives for a long time. With the Stanley Cup, there is always at least one such trip. Phil Pritchard is not always the keeper of the trophy. Neither in 2017 nor in 2016, he went to Moscow with Evgeni Malkin to exhibit at the Hockey Museum.

After the Washington parade and several events, the Stanley Cup went to the NHL Awards Ceremony Las Vegas, then – for a rough draft in Dallas, jumped into the Hall of Hockey Glory and the Festival of Fans "Capitals". Well, it has already come through coaches and players. First, he received video coach "Metropolitan" Tim Ojasi, and then Woody Lidigu, one of the equipment managers. On Saturday, the case will also reach the captain of "Caps" Alexander Ovechkin.

On July 7, the Stanley Cup will travel again to Moscow: Ovechkin will bring it to fan zone 2018 World Cup fans on Vorobiev mountains. It will be exhibited from 13:00 to 16:00, where, as the hockey player on Instagram, everyone can take a picture with the trophy, after which he will go to Novogorsk, at the base of Moscow Dynamo where he must stay from 17:00 to 20:00. The event will be attended by the leaders and veterans of the club, the first coaches of Alexander, and should also meet fans and young hockey players white and blue. At the same time, due to the time limit, the number of guests will be limited, priority will be given to Dynamo fans who have had a subscription-2017/18 and have visited the maximum number of matches .

Details of the event in fan -zone not yet, the event plan is very approximate. We know that the Stanley Cup will arrive in Moscow on July 7 and will remain two days. Perhaps, with Ovechkin on Vorobyovy Gory, there will be Dmitry Orlov, the defender of "Washington". Malkin ate a cup of meatballs.

Two other Russian hockey players from Washington, Eugene Kuznetsov and Dmitry Orlov, have already announced that they will bring the Stanley Cup to their hometowns – Chelyabinsk and Novokuznetsk. The exact dates of these events are still unknown, but most likely in the Urals, the trophy will be seen at the Governor's Cup of the Chelyabinsk region, which will take place from August 14 to August 17.