{"id":47728,"date":"2025-08-05T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47728\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:40:14","slug":"alex-ovechkin-partners-with-russian-company-to-make-movie-about-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47728\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin partners with Russian company to make movie about his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/alex-ovechkin\/434d92a7-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"434d92a7-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a> has partnered with a Russian technology company to produce a movie, series or documentary about his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Yandex and its streaming platform, Kinopoisk, announced the agreement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin this past spring\u00a0broke Wayne Gretzky\u2019s career goals record\u00a0and has\u00a0scored 897\u00a0going into the final season of\u00a0his contract\u00a0with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/washington-capitals\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-capitals\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. Ovechkin, who turns 40 next month, has along with his representatives granted the rights to adapt his career to Yandex\u2019s production label, Plus Studio.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow native who began his professional career in the Russian league, now the KHL, is expected to take part in commercials and serve as a Yandex ambassador as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin has played his entire career with Washington since the Capitals drafted him with the first pick in 2004 and he debuted in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has been\u00a0the face of the franchise\u00a0since, served as their captain since January 2010 and was playoff MVP in 2018 when he led them to their first Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin has partnered with a Russian technology company to produce a movie, series or documentary about his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-47728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}