"Still enjoy it. As soon as I'm not going to enjoy it, it's probably not right for me to stay here and play the game the way I wanted to play."
In a new interview, he commented on his plans for the future, saying he would retire after his current contract with the Capitals and won't continue until he's 50 years old.
Rabiner explicitly asked the big winger if he thinks he will be done with professional hockey after his current deal with the Capitals runs up.
«I think, yes,» Ovechkin said as translated via Google Translate.
"Rabiner then asked Ovechkin, who is 38, if he thought he had another 12 years of hockey in him to get to 50.
«No,» Ovechkin simply replied."
Ovi has two seasons left on his current deal. He's currently on an impressive streak of seven straight games with a goal. He needs only 58 goals to reach Wayne Gretzky's record and if he continue on that pace, it's a real possibility that he reaches it when his contract ends.