NHL lockout Alex Ovechkins soul is in DC says hell return to Cap

Ovechkin's soul still sits in Washington with the Capitals. (Getty Images) Hey, do you remember that time when said he might even after a new CBA was reached? Well you can forget that.Just in case it wasn't already clear that the captain of the was just blowing some smoke and perhaps trying to use his name as some leverage for the players, Ovechkin made it pretty clear that he is looking forward to returning to Washington. Albeit he said it a touch more poetically.Here is what he had to say to Antonius Cleveland Jersey Igor Fein of vmdaily.ru -- -- regarding a potential return to the NHL when the lockout is over.There you have it, Ovechkin yearns to reunite with his soul half the world away in our nation's capital. Or perhaps it's his bank account that he wants to return to in Washington.Given the agreement between the NHL and KHL to honor existing contracts, it was going to be a nasty fight if Ovechkin had decided to try to stay in the KHL. He also would have lost out on the ma sive $9,538,462 annual salary through the year 2021. That's an awfully big incentive to come back to the NHL when this is all figured out.Even still, Ovechkin said it's not just that he has a good thing going in Washington that he wants to return to -- it's also that the KHL really just isn't for him.Here's how Ovechkin responded when he was asked what he doesn't like about the KHL experience. Basically, the KHL has its i sues too. It sounds like somebody mi ses a whole city Rocking the Red.Ovechkin and his other comrades who fled to the KHL could say all the while that they were considering staying in the Ru sia-based league, but it never had a real chance of happening. Whether they loved playing in the KHL or not, like Ovechkin has now admitted, the logistics of it just never made sense. It was the most transparent posturing of this entire lockout, and there has been plenty of posturing.On the plus side, Ovechkin did just have one of his best games thus far in the KHL, recording his first hat trick of the season over the weekend thanks in part to Washington and Dynamo teammate Nicklas Backstrom. Ovechkin has 12 goals and 15 a sists in 22 games and in case youre curious Backstrom has 7 goals with 11 a sists in 13 games. Steve Nash Jersey