Photo: Rob Carr

On Wednesday morning, Sportsnet released an interview with Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin. They asked Ovi about lots of interesting things: the music video he co-starred in August, what he remembers from his first NHL goal, and fancy stats!

I’m going to go ahead and share that last part.

SN: Do you know anything about Corsi and other fancy stats?

Ovechkin: No. SN: You do know about plus-minus.

Ovechkin: It’s great. SN: You get a little bit ripped for your plus-minus, and you’ve said it doesn’t matter. So now you’re saying it matters?

Ovechkin: I’m confused right now. SN: Does plus-minus matter?

Ovechkin: Yeah, of course it matters. I get minus-35, so it matters. My goal is to be plus-one. Not minus.

You need to read this entire interview. Seriously. This is golden.