Sergei Fedorov will have his Detroit Red Wings jersey number 91 retired in January, becoming the third Russian hockey player to receive that honor from an NHL team. Alex Ovechkin attended Pavel Datsyuk's farewell "Magic Game" and was asked about Fedorov's honor and his own possible future jersey retirement. Ovechkin said that Fedorov deserves the honor and declined to comment on Detroit, suggesting Washington should be asked about retiring his number. Ovechkin enters the final year of his Capitals contract, prompting speculation about how the club might honor him when he retires. No one is expected to wear number 8 for the Capitals after Ovechkin retires, and he leads the franchise across numerous scoring categories while being the only captain to win a Stanley Cup for the team. Fedorov predicted that Ovechkin's number will be taken out of circulation in the future.
Ovechkin's future has been a major topic of discussion as he heads into the final year of his contract with the Washington Capitals. While he would prefer not to talk about the end of his NHL career just yet, that won't stop speculation about how the Caps could handle honoring the club's best player when he does hang up his skates.
It's a virtual guarantee that no one else will ever wear the number 8 for the Capitals once he retires. Ovechkin could step away from the game tomorrow and leave DC as the team's franchise leader in goals, points, power-play goals, even-strength goals, game-winning goals, playoff goals, shots, and hat tricks. He's also the only captain of the Caps to have led the franchise to a Stanley Cup championship.
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