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Washington Capitals megastar Alexander Ovechkin does not suffer for attention from the ladies — this much we already knew. But in a profile in the November issue of GQ, Ovechkin delivers the most backhanded of all compliments, calling D.C. “a quiet, calm family town” — while at the same time delivering some rather pointed remarks on the difference between Russian and American ladies. From the article:

[He] takes turns making out with Lera while Olesya documents the proceedings and making out with Olesya while Lera does the documenting. While the calves and the lamb cavort, I hug the boards for an hour and a half. The girls giggle. The whole tableau is a high school nightmare come to life.

Oh, my. Well, maybe it’s not that there’s a lack of women in D.C. who are willing to fawn over Ovechkin with another lady in tow; it could just be that Ovi’s a fairly picky guy when it comes to who he chooses to awkwardly make out with while a journalist looks on:

“If you compare Russia and America,” he told the magazine, “they are two different worlds. People, cars, clothes. Girls’ figures. Especially girls’ figures. Why do you think that is, that when an American goes to Russia for a week, he stays for two extra weeks? Girls! And when a Russian goes to America for a week, he leaves in five days.”