It’s far too early to report an actual relationship, but we got a kick out of this anyway. A brand new blog honestly titled Hot Leader Celeb reports, in questionable English prose, that Alexander Ovechkin is seeing a woman named Lena Lenskaya. This is based on a picture of the two of them standing next to each other at a party. We’re sure our readers will agree: if you stand next to a girl at a party, you must be dating.
The best part of the story is that the blog reports that the couple fell in love to the sonorous strains of Dima Bilan. Bilan, like Ovechkin, recently brought a championship home to Russia on the international stage. Ovechkin, of course, played with Capitals teammates Alexander Semin and Sergei Fedorov on the top line for the Russian team that defeated Canada at the IIHF World Championship. Bilan, on the other hand, won Eurovision, which is a lot like American Idol, only even more painful. See the video above.
While we have plenty of suspicion that this blog might be a hoax, and we hadn’t heard that Ovechkin broke up with Katja, we love bold statements and beautiful translations, such as, “Alexander as the true gentleman, has given Lena the jacket and, having taken for a hand, has led to the machine…”
On the bright side, we don’t expect any major reaction from our readers. That is, at least it’s not Brooks Laich.