As he enters his 21st season in the NHL, Alex Ovechkin has signed a deal for a documentary about his career.
Capitals' Alex Ovechkin Scores Deal for Documentary originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has signed an agreement with Russian tech giant Yandex and its streaming platform, Kinopoisk, to produce a movie, series or documentary chronicling his NHL career.
The deal comes as the 39-year-old enters the final season of his five-year, $47.5 million contract and his 21st year in the league.
The project will be produced by Plus Studio, Yandex’s in-house label, and distributed on Kinopoisk. Ovechkin and his representatives have granted full adaptation rights, and filming is expected to take place in North America.
The deal was announced Tuesday, and it comes on the heels of a report from Russian outlet Match TV claiming that, as ordered by the NHL, Ovechkin will be "banned" from exclusive interviews with media from his country throughout the 2025 offseason.
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The documentary will cover the Moscow native’s journey from the Russian KHL, where he started playing professional hockey, to becoming the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer.
Ovechkin is coming off a record-breaking season in which he scored 44 goals in just 65 games after missing time with a broken leg. That brought his career total to 897 goals, surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s legendary mark of 894 and cementing his place in history.
With the Capitals bringing back the core that earned them the Metropolitan Division title in 2024-25, the upcoming season could be Ovechkin’s last on NHL ice if the Russian winger retires after completing his contract with Washington.
Ovechkin, however, has made no official decision on his future, although the timing of the documentary will reasonably fuel speculation about a storybook sendoff.
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Since debuting in 2005 after the Capitals selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 draft, Ovechkin has become the face of the franchise and an all-time great.
Ovechkin has won the Hart Trophy as MVP of the league three times and led the Capitals to their first Stanley Cup championship in 2018, where he was also named playoff MVP.
No release date has been announced for the documentary.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Aug 6, 2025, where it first appeared.
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