{"id":93126,"date":"2025-08-24T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:14:07","slug":"rasmus-sandin-shares-details-behind-hublot-watches-alex-ovechkin-gifted-players-and-staff-after-breaking-nhl-goals-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93126\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Sandin shares details behind Hublot watches Alex Ovechkin gifted players and staff after breaking NHL goals record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lars Eller revealed in a podcast interview that Alex Ovechkin gifted the team and other staff members Hublot watches after breaking the NHL goals record<\/a>. The gesture was to show thanks to everyone for their support during his historic chase.<\/p>\n

\u201cOvi got Hublot watches for everyone,\u201d Eller said on Coming in Hot with Wallace and York in July<\/a>. \u201cCustomized Hublot watches. I think he even got it for trainers and staff members, not just the players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rasmus Sandin elaborated about the gift during an interview with Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Thoughts Podcast<\/a>. Though, Sandin was cagey about revealing too much because he thought it remained a secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gave us a nice gift,\u201d Sandin said. \u201cAll of us, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed by Friedman for specifics, the Capitals defenseman expressed his reservations before dishing on what it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know if I should say this,\u201d Sandin said. \u201cJust because it\u2019s you guys, he gave us a custom watch. Every player and lots of guys on the staff, too. On the back, it\u2019s a picture of him from the celebration. I think it was (from goal) 894, like that celebration he had, and it said \u2018Thank you,\u2019 and everyone\u2019s name on the back of the watch. He told everyone that this is something that you can keep for the rest of your life, so you can look back at it and remember it. Yeah, I\u2019m not selling that one, I\u2019ll tell you that. It\u2019s gonna be kept.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very appreciative. Not only with the gift, but the way he went around and thanked everyone, and his whole family, how they thanked everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ovechkin has had a longstanding relationship with Hublot and was named a \u201cfriend of the brand\u201d in 2019<\/a>, likely influencing his choice of gift. Hublot also created a limited-edition watch in Ovechkin\u2019s honor in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Ovechkin gave the watch to all of his teammates, Sandin got an extra souvenir from the record chase. The Swedish defenseman also asked for one of Ovechkin\u2019s hockey sticks<\/a> from the day he scored goal no. 895. The twig Sandin received was only one Ovechkin used in the locker room to warm up, but he was still very appreciative for the memento of the historic moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it was an awesome thing to be a part of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lars Eller revealed in a podcast interview that Alex Ovechkin gifted the team and other staff members Hublot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-93126","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\/93126","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=93126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}