Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin wasn’t looking for any publicity, he was just trying to help.
The three-time Hart Trophy winner was out shopping with teammates in Edmonton on Friday when he spotted a homeless man in freezing cold temperatures. “I saw a guy with no shirt, so I went to the store to buy him a sweater, coat and hat,” a reluctant Ovechkin told the Edmonton Sun.
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“It’s something I think if you saw a guy almost naked out there with that kind of temperature, I think every human can do something,” the NHL superstar explained. “A warm coat, a shirt or whatever… He was like, ‘Are you serious?'”
Ovechkin’s teammate Tom Wilson barely batted an eye at the athlete’s good deed. “I think 100 per cent, he gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but he’s a guy that does his thing and is not necessarily worried about what other people are going to think about him,” said Wilson.
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“He’s a guy who wouldn’t do that for the attention, he’s doing that because he felt it was the right thing to do at the time,” Wilson continued. “That’s obviously pretty generous, I didn’t know about that. We have a very special group of guys in this room and as a leader, and someone that guys are going to look up to, that’s a great deed.”
The Washington Capitals are playing the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday night.
