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Greg Wyshynski
Inside UBS Arena on Sunday afternoon, Alex Ovechkin He continued his efforts to go through the record Wayne Gretzky’s All-Time NHL career goals. Ovechkin also chased him in the parking lot of the arena: on the roof of the jeep, diving on the goat wearing Gretzky Los Angeles Kings sweater.
“What’s that?” He asked one fan of islanders as they walked past the White Jeep Eddie Twomey.
It was decorated Washington Capitals Flags and stickers, car magnets in honor of Ovechkin’s “Chase” Gretzky’s record and a sophisticated scene on the car including Ovechkin mannequin and the above goat. Ovechkin entered the Sunday match against New York Islanders, who needs one goal to break Gretzky’s record.
“That was in my head, I don’t know, five years, and I’m trying to figure out how it works,” Twomey ESPN said.
For years, Jeep had an eight -meter replica of the Stanley Cup on the roof to celebrate the 2018 Capitals Championship. Twomey took it to places like Stage Series in 2023 at North Carolina State University, and draws crowds of fans.
When Ovechkin approached Gretzky’s career destinations in the 894-Cozer record on Friday evening tied up with the effort of two goals against Chicago Blackhawks – Twomey began brainstorming how best to represent this historical persecution on his car.
“The cup is easy because you can understand it. But that is Gretzky’s understanding,” he said.
So Twomey decided to tell the story and it is a kind of personal. He grew up in New York, but moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Gretzky was traded Edmonton Oilers To the kings two months later. He was at the Great Western Forum when Gretzky scored his 802. Career goal to give Gordie Howe in 1994 for his NHL career. Twomey has two tickets from this game.
Twomey saw Gretzky became the greatest of all time (aka goats) and incorporated it into the motive. Ovechkin tries to “collapse” the goat with a wand and chase him. On both sides of the display is a photo of Gretzky looking up. It is a 2006 screen when Gretzky was the head coach of Phoenix Coyotes and Ovechkin scored a “goal” The iconic sum that has seen him finding a net while he fell on the ice during his newcomer season.
While Twomey planned it, he also thought he had a little more time to build him. This season, Ovechkin continued a goal with 17 goals in his first 20 games, the hottest start of his career. Then, after the fibula layout, he missed him five weeks from 18 November to 28 December. Ovechkin scored 15 goals from 4 nations in February.
In Maryland he went to Hercules Fence to build an aluminum set on the upper part of the Jeep. He found neon lights that could be replaced every time Ovechk’s score – in fact Twomey plans to run UBS to replace the total number, and targets from breaking the record if Ovechkin broke it on Sunday.
Twomey took the car counting goals Ovechkin on Raleigh for the game Capitals Carolina April 2 and then DC for the game against Chicago, where Ovechkin tied the record. Then it was to New York, who had his complications.
“The funny part is that I forgot about New York and the parks. We had to stop on the highway and back up because the bridges are so low. It took us another hour to get here. And as soon as we get to the parking lot, it is 9 feet-1.
But the car got into the game and set the scene for what hundreds of main cities inside the arena hoped to be a historic day in hockey.
