according to chesnokov sovsport is reporting that ovechkin left early for washington because he is nursing an injury

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The only "injury" he's "nursing" right now goes by the name of Kirilenko

I have not seen any other reports to corroborate this.

Please post a link if you have one.

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"While Ovechkin says he's healthy and ready to go after his stint in Russia, Capitals teammate Nicklas Backstrom is recovering from a neck injury suffered while playing last month with Dynamo."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/prettie...1378--nhl.html

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Dmitry Chesnokov‏@dchesnokov

KHL's Dynamo Moscow say Ovechkin decided to go to Washington early because he's nursing a minor injury, per SovSport. #Caps


This is probably the tweet he was referring to
https://twitter.com/dchesnokov

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After reading this... I decided to start some "conspiracy theory" that Ovechkin is claiming the injury to avoid the Russian pressure of bailing out of the country prior to their KHL All-Star game (Sunday, Jan 13th).

If he's injured, he wouldn't play in the KHL All-Star game.
Fans can't hate on him for not playing if he's injured.
And if he's not playing in that game... he might as well return to Washington.

Yes?

I definitely could see that being part of the reason. He already has all the Single Russian woman mad at him for being engaged it would be a full out riot if all the hockey fans knew he could have been at the all star game and chose not to participate

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He tweeted this yesterday

Alex Ovechkin ‏@ovi8

Great to be home in DC! Thank you Dynamo!! It was gr8 time......good luck to boys for gagarin cup!!!

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thats what i was referring to

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Thanks for the link.

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thank Johner he provided the link

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