What’s crazy, though, is how Ovechkin is doing all this on the horrible diet he maintains by drinking Diet Pepsi on the bench, taking down large plates of chicken parm on game days, and crushing Hot Cheetos on team flights with lots of vodka and beer in between.

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The wellspring of that discord is the White House, where President Donald Trump has spent months denigrating Canada with 51st-state rhetoric and antagonizing America’s northern neighbor, and Canadian fans have responded by booing mercilessly at the U.S. national anthem when American teams cross the border.