On Thursday night, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin held his yearly live call-in show where he addresses a plethora of world issues. While we’re not going to get into any politics involved in the question-and-answer show, we do want to address the elephant in the room… or rather, the NHL superstar in the room.

As we watched, we began to notice a familiar blur in the background of the shot right behind Putin. We wondered why that blurred face was so familiar? Is it a face we often see blurred, perhaps by how fast the face is skating by the camera during hockey games?

Let’s play a round of ‘Name that NHL player behind Putin!’

Let’s see that image one more time.

If you guessed Alexander Ovechkin, you’re right!

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(H/T RMND)