Alex Ovechkin is doing the impossible, and he’s doing it with joy

When it happened — when Alex Ovechkin buried still another puck in a career littered with buried pucks — he thrust his arms to the Capital One Arena rafters, where his No. 8 will someday reside. His teammates, all of them, spilled onto the ice.

The group hug played out in the corner, along the boards, joy in red sweaters. It was as if the 18,573 who jammed the building were in on the embrace..