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“I think him and Backstrom want to tie each other into each other.”

Oh. OH.

Maybe you just take the hat off and show, like, the Swedish long blond hair that makes the girls go crazy?

Media: Can you believe Ovi is now the oldest player on the team?

Backstrom:  *deadpan* Yeah, I can. *laughs* No, I just think it’s so cool that he got his own cereal.

Media: Have you tried it?

Backstrom:  No, I haven’t tried it. But I asked him if he could bring some, because my kids want some. So, hopefully I’ll get it for free.

Media: Nick, going back to Ovi– oldest guy on the team you know.

Backstrom:   *laughs* What’s that? Yeah, yeah.

Media: Going back to him, speaking to him earlier, he said you guys had been together since day one. What does your friendship with him mean to you?

Backstrom:  It means a lot. I mean, I think he, he’s been, he meant a lot for me, especially the first couple years. Took me under his wing… and then, when we got older, I took him under my wing. *smiles* No, it means a lot, he’s a great guy, he’s so funny, I think… there’s never a boring day around that guy. It’s just the way he is.

Media: What did you say when you saw him after the bicycle accident?

Backstrom:  *heavy sigh* The first thing I asked him, “did you wear a helmet?” He said, “yeah.” So… that’s Ovi. *laughs* Summer with Ovi.

Media: Has anyone, has a player ever gotten him so bad as the bicycle accident got him?

Backstrom:   No, I think that was the worst I’ve seen him. *laughs* He’s gotta be careful. He should maybe just stick to hockey, right?

HEARTS! IN! DICKS! OUT! HAIR! GONE!

aleksandrovechkinofficial: love u bro!

Mic’d up Kuzy is so polite. He says PLEASE, and MY BAD, SORRY, OKAY, I WILL BE BETTER, and HEADS UP, and CAN YOU GRAB THAT PLEASE, and OHHHH I DIDN’T KNOW THAT’S ICING…

Throwback to Ovi and Nicky’s haircut philosophies:

So say you just signed a nine-figure contract to play professional hockey, and then you decided that maybe you wanted to get a trim up top, you know, clean up a little. Where would you go for that haircut? Some fancy downtown salon? A men’s grooming specialty shop? Nah, that stuff’s for prima donna soccer players, or maybe Democratic presidential candidates. If you’re Alex Ovechkin, you’d take your $124 million and head to the Hair Cuttery inside Ballston Commons. Really. It’s right next to Champs, and around the corner from the As Seen on TV store. This Hair Cuttery story has been circulating, and so I asked Ovechkin today whether it was true.

“Where I get my haircut? Right here,” he said, from the team’s practice facility on top of those Commons.

“How much did it cost?” I asked.

“I can’t tell you,” he said.

I threw out the $14 figure that I had heard, and he agreed. So then I suggested that, you know, maybe some people might theoretically have chosen to upgrade after becoming a multi-millionaire, not that there’s anything wrong with the Hair Cuttery.

“Why I have to go?” he asked me. “I’m always cut it here, I’m always hair cut here. I’m looking good.”

OH BUT IT GETS BETTER.

Back to hair. Ovechkin’s running mate, young Swede Nicklas Backstrom, has not deigned to chop his locks since he set foot in the U.S. this fall.

“I don’t want to do it here,” he said. “I have my own designer at home.”

I pointed out that this might mean some serious shag come the spring, depending on how things go.

“I was not think about that,” he admitted, “but we’ll see what happens. RIght now I’m gonna save it.”

And what does he think of Ovechkin’s $14 cut?

“That was terrible,” Backstrom said. “But that’s ok.”

It’s nice for couples to have different opinions.