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Alex Ovechkin Talks Breaking the All-Time Goal Scoring Record - Full Press Conference · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks alright, guess good Mike's here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh we chicker Dan from WUSA nine. You were thirteen
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  Speaker 3: when Wayne set his record. It's been a long road.
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  Speaker 3: No one in this room will ever know what that's
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  Speaker 3: like to dud what you just did. What was that
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  Speaker 3: moment like for you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: They ask you, uh when uh I was tying uh
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  Speaker 1: the record, I'm still can't believe it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was so emotional, it was so.
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  Speaker 2: Such a great night.
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  Speaker 1: But this, uh, it's something crazy and uh.
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  Speaker 2: I just said it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I'm probably gonna need a couple more days, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe a couple of weeks to realize what does it
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  Speaker 1: mean uh to be number one? But Uh, well, I
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  Speaker 1: can say I'm very proud. Uh, I'm very proud for it,
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  Speaker 1: Uh myself, I'm proud for my family, for all my
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  Speaker 1: teammates that uh helped me to reach that milestone, and
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  Speaker 1: for all my coaches.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's you know, it's it's it's huge.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable, unbelievable moment.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, yeah happy.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ale's chap friendly with NBC four. Your teammates mentioned
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  Speaker 3: all the pressure that was on you during this chase.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you feel any sense of relief for
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  Speaker 3: that there's a weight off your shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, I'm not gonna have uh those questions when when
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  Speaker 1: you think you're gonna break it, it's it's already done,
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  Speaker 1: So try to figure out what's the next question.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I think uh for me, uh and
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  Speaker 1: for all this, you know, it's fun time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh you can see how many people traveled from
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  Speaker 1: all all over the world to uh see that moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, it's it's it's it's special over here.
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  Speaker 4: Two things, one quick one, just soro can bring brought
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  Speaker 4: you the stick from the.
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  Speaker 2: I tell them right away, So now I need I
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  Speaker 2: need that stick. Did you give you any did you
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  Speaker 2: give anything back? Uh? She don't ask me.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then secondly, just the celebration there the
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  Speaker 3: belly flop, is that plan or.
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  Speaker 1: Do you just like I was back today so I
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  Speaker 1: felt and you know, I'm pretty sure it's pretty cool moment.
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, it's uh yeah, it's it's it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Look like.
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  Speaker 5: Almost Steve Barino associated Press Alex the whole world's been
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  Speaker 5: talking about this like Hockey's been talking about your people
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  Speaker 5: CNN all that. What's it been like to be to
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  Speaker 5: kind of bring so much joy to hockey and everything
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  Speaker 5: by being a part of this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's great for a game, you know, it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's great for.
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  Speaker 1: D C, is great for Washington's great for us to
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  Speaker 1: be involved and for this, uh, for this moment. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm pretty sure right now in DC it's
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  Speaker 1: something's crazy happening because yeah, but and especially at home
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  Speaker 1: in Russia, like right now, people celebrate, people, you know, happy,
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I'm just I'm just happy to be
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  Speaker 1: part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And uh yeah.
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  Speaker 6: At Dan Rosean NHL dot Com, Alex John Carlson had
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  Speaker 6: the assist on eight ninety four, Tom Wilson had it
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  Speaker 6: on today, the first assist and Nick Baction's in the
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  Speaker 6: belly and you played the most games with those three guys.
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  Speaker 6: Is a kind of fitting And what does that mean
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  Speaker 6: to you that those two guys had assists on those
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  Speaker 6: two goals?
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  Speaker 2: And and Nick is here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as soon as it's so NICKI you know, like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to cry and we hold him the
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  Speaker 1: because he was such a big part of my success
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  Speaker 1: and we're growing up together. We we play together. We've
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  Speaker 1: been in so many different situations together, and that the
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  Speaker 1: relationship and that moment when him and Osh being here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's tremendous. It's it's support, it's it's always been Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's always been.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I tell him it's it's your uh without
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  Speaker 1: without you, Like I would never read that milestone.
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  Speaker 4: Russell Masius hockey out. But uh, what what can you
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  Speaker 4: say about just you know, Soroken's kind of humility to
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  Speaker 4: kind of just accept he got beat and then the
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  Speaker 4: Islands themselves helping you celebrate this moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just before the game, I mean strong we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Uh, I never scored against him, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we played only like two games and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know it's uh it's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: historical moment. Russian score against Russian and uh uh set
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  Speaker 1: up the record. So it's pretty cool. He's such a
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  Speaker 1: great kid and uh, you know my kids I love
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  Speaker 1: him and like, you know, so now how I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, it's tremendous, tremendous moment. It's a tremendous, uh
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  Speaker 1: tremendous day for for hockey and U for Uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: supporting guys.
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  Speaker 2: He's played Tom for a long time. What was it
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  Speaker 2: ament like when he passed the puck and you got
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  Speaker 2: to share it with him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's such a great He's such a great. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's such a great man. And uh he.
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  Speaker 2: Can do whatever.
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  Speaker 1: He can fight, he can play all different situations, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. I'm happy for stronger probably stronger,
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  Speaker 1: happiest guys right now, Uh in our in the whole world,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Uh, because he's he's crazy about the stats.
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  Speaker 1: He's he knows everything, and uh, he he just wants
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  Speaker 1: to be uh in that history.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, David Captain Fox five, I'm just curious when the
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  Speaker 7: power play happened. Uh, kind of what's going on in
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  Speaker 7: your mind?
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  Speaker 2: If anything?
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  Speaker 7: Were you anticipating that you might get an opportunity there?
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  Speaker 7: And just kind of, yeah, how are you processing getting
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  Speaker 7: ready for that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think in the whole first period, we uh
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  Speaker 1: we have pretty good chances. Uh, he makes a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good saves.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a situation, how I said, like game
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  Speaker 1: by game, ship by ship, and then we'll see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously and I was a great passed by Tom
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  Speaker 1: and I just I just fired it and it went in.
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  Speaker 2: Last question it's Greg ki ESPN.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how much of the video you got
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  Speaker 4: to see, but they had a video with Michael Jordan, Lebron, James,
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  Speaker 4: Derek Jeter like.
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  Speaker 5: You.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see, but it's it's such a cool moment
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  Speaker 1: for me too to have.
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  Speaker 2: A video from Legends.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's going beforeever and I'm thankful, thankful
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  Speaker 1: for them for that video of the messages. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how I said, it's I'm happy and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to go home, all right, Thank you guys,