"My mother, Olympic champion, always played basketball wearing number eight. I always wanted to play with that number. When I came to Dynamo, that number was already taken by captain Alexey Troschinsky. So I initially played there wearing number 32. Then I grew into my eight," Ovechkin shared. Among the hockey players he looked up to, Ovechkin named Vyacheslav Fetisov, Sergei Fedorov, Pavel Bure, and Alexander Mogilny.