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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Ok, mark me down as 99.9% certain that he won't be because he will not be eligible. Unless he is going to walk away from the rest of his contract ala Kovalchuk.
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You might be right.
At some point though, Ted Leonosis and Ovechkin have a chat.
Ovechkin, as the biggest Russian hockey star on the planet, will have big pressure to join Kovalchuk and Markov at the Olympics. Leonosis knows that if Ovechkin says he's walking away from the Capitals that the KHL will do whatever is necessary to let Ovechkin play there.
I think Leonosis grants permission for Ovechkin to go.