Boy, we miss this. Here’s Alex Ovechkin shooting once from his office.


Washington Capitals returned to the ice for the first time in four months on Monday for their first day of Phase 3 training camp. But I immediately faced an existential crisis. They are the capitals Really Back if Ovi isn’t back in his office?

On Tuesday, everything felt good again when Ovi returned to the left circle and hit the bottom of the net once.

It’s the Ovi Shot from the Ovi Spot, guys.

Videos

Someone please inject these videos directly into my veins.

The videos were shot by Samantha Pell of the Washington Post and Tom Gulitti of NHL.com, who were a handful of media allowed in practice, sitting on the balcony of MedStar Capitals Iceplex.

And now, here is an additional Ovi Office video from January featuring special guest star Nicklas Backstrom.

Yes, I missed this.

Screenshot courtesy of @TomGulittiNHL