Washington Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin hasn’t held back while celebrating his team’s first Stanley Cup win, and it doesn’t seem like he will be stopping any time soon.
The Russian player has been swimming in a fountain with his shirt off, has danced away at nightclubs, has thrown the first pitch out at a Washington Nationals ball game and has even drunk from the historic trophy.
All before stumbling on Jared and Ivanka Trump at Cafe Milano, who were eating with Yousef Al Otaiba – Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America.
A picture has also surfaced of him passed on on the team’s plane, hugging the Stanley Cup.
Alexander Ovechkin continued his Stanley Cup celebration at the Washington Nationals baseball game on Saturday
Ovechkin and teammates pose with Ivanka Trump in Georgetown at Cafe Milano
Throwing the first pitch with the cup nearby on Saturday, the team captain overshot his toss and the ball goes flying above Max Scherzer’s head.
After the game, however, Ovechkin really let loose and was filmed doing a keg stand out of the Stanley Cup.
He then led his teammates and spectators into chants of his own name.
The rascal continued with his fun, scaling the fence of Nick’s Riverside Grill.
But that was truly just the beginning of his postgame antics, as Ovechkin then darted into Georgetown’s waterfront fountain for a swim.
Ovechkin ditches his shirt at one point as he wallows in the water.
The team continues their screams and celebration before getting on their bus and jetting off to their next location.
Videos show him messing up the first pitch before later doing a keg stand out of the Stanley Cup and leading a chant of his own name
The rascal continued with his fun, scaling the fence of Nick’s Riverside Gril
President Donald Trump took time to applaud the Washington Capitals captain on Friday morning after the franchise captured won its first championship in 43 years.
‘Congratulations to the Washington Capitals on their GREAT play and winning the Stanley Cup Championship,’ Trump’s Tweet said. ‘Alex Ovechkin, the team captain, was spectacular – a true Superstar! D.C. is popping, in many ways. What a time!’
Ovechkin is a staunch supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, hence why Trump may have sent out the tweet.
Ovechkin, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the 2018 NHL postseason, has said his praise of Putin is somehow non-political, stressing that he hopes for better relations between the two countries – a desire Trump has expressed publicly as well.
Ovechkin darted into Georgetown’s waterfront fountain for a swim, taking off his shirt and hootin’ and hollering
Alexander Ovechkin and Vladimir Putin have remained enthusiastic supporters of each other
Trump’s tweet also shows a contrast to how his relationship has been going with mostly black athletes from the NFL and NBA.
Ovechkin’s teammate, Devante Smith-Pelly, has already said he would not be visiting the White House when invited over an objection to Trump’s rhetoric.
‘The things that he spews are straight-up racist and sexist,’ Canada’s Postmedia quoted Smith-Pelly as saying Wednesday as the Capitals prepared for Thursday’s Game 5. (Both Smith-Pelly and Ovechkin scored in Thursday’s clinching victory)
President Donald Trump praised Ovechkin for the Capitals’ first Stanley Cup victory on Friday
‘Some of the things he’s said are pretty gross. I’m not too into politics, so I don’t know all his other views, but his rhetoric I definitely don’t agree with. It hasn’t come up here, but I think I already have my mind made up.’
Smith-Pelly, one of two black Capitals players, is from the Toronto area.
Trump, of course, has not been silent on the subject. He has referred to protesting NFL players as ‘sons of b******’ and suggested anyone who stayed in the locker room rather than stand on the field during the anthem should leave the country.
Devante Smith-Pelly absolutely refuses to go to the White House now that the Capitals have won the Cup