Ovechkin... Engaged?

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 Ovechkin... Engaged?
If I told you that one of the Caps' Russian superstars was at one time engaged to a mediocre, young female tennis player, you'd think nothing of it - the whole world knows about Sergei Fedorov and Anna Kournikova's history. But if I told you I was talking about Alex Ovechkin, that might be news. According to The Charlottesville Daily Progress , Olga Puchkova, the No. 2 seed at this week's Boyd [link]

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Was Alexander Ovechkin engaged to Russian tennis babe?
Published 5/2/2008 at Puck Daddy
... Language barrier goof, or a heretofore underreported part of the 22-year-old Ovechkin's romantic past? As Japers' Rink, who pointed us to the story, wrote: "I knew plenty of the younger Russian NHLers had idolized Fedorov growing up ... ...

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