http://www.tsn.ca/leaner-ovechkin-ma...kouts-1.842088
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A slimmer, trimmer-looking Alex Ovechkin is back on the ice for summer workouts more than two weeks before the start of training camp.
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Teammates noticing the difference:
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"You can see he lost some weight," centre Evgeny Kuznetsov said. "Every year you're trying to be better. You change something in the summer. Ovi's like other guys, too — he wants to change something, right? It's always nice to see when your teammates get better. They change. They try something new."
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Motivation from consecutive early playoff exits:
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"After we lost to Pittsburgh, a lot of negative things (were said) about our team, about him," Orlov said. "Everybody said, 'The Caps cannot do anything, blah, blah, blah.' So everybody understands and everybody wants to show we can do everything. ... He wants to be where he's always been, one of the superstars in the league and he wants to work hard and show everybody who he is."
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A fact that I think is lost on a lot of people:
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Ovechkin leads all players with 558 goals since entering the NHL in 2005-06, 176 more than Penguins captain Sidney Crosby.
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Personally, I'm still very surprised the Caps are so unlucky in the playoffs. I truly thought they built their team the right way this season, but it wasn't meant to be. Maybe with the personnel losses, they reinvent themselves? They still have a superstar C and a Vezina caliber G.