Alex Ovechkin made a surprise appearance at Hershey’s Giant Center on Thursday night. The NHL’s greatest goal-scorer attended Hershey’s first playoff game of 2026 along with Aliaksei Protas, who was there in support of his younger brother Ilya. Ovechkin and Protas, a Calder Cup champion with the Bears in 2023, were announced to the crowd during the first TV timeout in the first period.
Ovechkin did the ROAR as the camera panned to him, a celebr…
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