Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports
Today we look back at one of Alex Ovechkin’s best hat tricks.
What made this Alex Ovechkin hat trick special wasn’t the fact that the Washington Capitals star got a hat trick itself. It was that he dedicated that game to one of his biggest fans. Alex Luey, a teenager who was battling bone cancer, was promised at least a goal by the great eight himself but went on to score three goals.
Luey was battling osteosarcoma which caused his right leg to be amputated in September 2016.