Alex Ovechkin’s wife Nastya took to Instagram on Thursday to share her thoughts on placing Russian capitals on the NHL’s COVID-19 outage list. Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Orlov and Samsonov were disciplined and were unable to play for a while after spending together in a hotel room during the Capitals’ most recent trip. The capitals were fined $ 100,000 as a team.
“I regret my choice to spend time with my teammates in our hotel room and away from the locker rooms,” said Ovechkin in a statement released by Capitals. “I will learn from that experience.”
Nastya has different views.
Alex Ovechkin’s wife Nastya posted a response to the four Russians from the Capitals being placed on the COVID protocol for being together in a hotel room during the team’s recent trip.
She says Ovechkin and Dmitry Orlov have antibodies. pic.twitter.com/JYjoRgFCUf
– Ian Oland (@ianoland) January 21, 2021
Writing in Russian and English so that its meaning would not be lost by any of his followers, Nastya took on a sarcastic tone.
She writes:
Of course, only Russian players from Washington Capitals were together in the same hotel room.
Of course, all other players in the NHL, when playing away, separate from their teammates.
Of course, you cannot catch the virus when you and your teammates sit together on the bench, hug each other when they score a goal or when they are all together in the room or in the locker room.
Players cannot be infected when they are in restaurants, supermarkets, shopping malls, etc.
The virus only works in a hotel room. The one who created this rule, obviously, is very logical. By the way, both Alex Ovechkin and Dmitry Orlov have antibodies. Unfortunately, not everyone is competent in their values and properties (of antibodies).
Ovechkin said in an off-season interview that he discovered he had antibodies after his mother, Tatyana, became ill with COVID-19. Dmitry Orlov was not known to have antibodies.
Title photo courtesy of Nastya Ovechkina