When Andre Burakovsky was interviewed by the NHLPA at the start of the season, he revealed one of the more unusual pre-game superstitions from Alexander Ovechkin.
Before hitting the ice for warm-ups, a common warm-up exercise hockey players do is try and keep a soccer ball from touching the ground in a circular formation. That's nothing out of the ordinary to get the blood flowing, but biting your teammates in between rounds of the game certainly seems to be.
Courtesy of Russian Machine Never Breaks, we now have footage of Ovechkin's latest victim of the chomp, Jakub Vrana.
Hey, whatever works right?
Although the video is a little blurry, you can tell that Vrana was fully expecting the bite as he apprehensively offered up his arm prior to the Russian sniper chomping down on his arm. At least he softened the blow with his toque, right?
Ovechkin then lets Vrana returns the favour (is that really a favour?), but Ovi's elicits a much more nonchalant response.
Alex Ovechkin, a sniper and a biter.
