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NHL 07

Washington Post Review

Alexander Ovechkin received one of sports' hot honors when EA Sports put him on the cover of its latest hockey game, NHL 07. He's the first Washington area pro athlete to be on the cover of any EA Sports game. But despite his highlight-reel goals, the awards and the fact that Ovechkin has people talking about hockey in the football-crazed District, one question remained: Is he any good at the game? And was he up for a little competition? The folks at EA Sports told me that Ovechkin got the hang of NHL 07 pretty quickly, even with changes in the controls that require more use of the two thumb sticks and not the controller's buttons. The Capitals' public relations department said the same thing.

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