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Alex Ovechkin wants us to think he's just a stooge

Patrick Johnston: Ovechkin says he's just a man, with no ability to control what happens around him. Yeah, right.

Alex Ovechkin can play the innocent all he wants, but when you choose to show up in a political ad for anyone, not just the president of Russia, you are going to be asked questions.

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As a believer in peace and the rights of people to live as they are, it’s appalling that he can’t see the crime that his beloved country is wreaking upon its neighbour.

But almost as appalling is Ovechkin’s cowardice in speaking about what he’s chosen to stand for.

He wants us to believe he’s a stooge, a patsy, just a passenger in what the Russian government is doing. He has no agency, he claims.

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