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Amid celebration and farewell, Alex Ovechkin leaves retirement question unanswered: 'I haven’t decided yet'

By Jake MintzYahoo Sports

Everybody at the Washington Capitals' final regular-season home game was treating the afternoon like a well-earned goodbye — everybody, that is, except Ovechkin.

WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Pittsburgh Penguins wanted to say thank you, but Alexander Ovechkin just wanted to go home.

He laughed. They lingered. He insisted.

They stayed. He waved them away, again and again. Eventually, Ovechkin’s longtime sporting nemeses relented, and the pack of white and black and yellow made its way down the tunnel and out of sight.

Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer, might be hanging up his skates this summer. He also might not be. Nobody, including the 40-year-old star, knows with any certainty.

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