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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin is offering his help to organizers of the first Winter Olympics in his native Russia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Washington Capitals star, who has earned the Hart Trophy as league MVP the past two seasons, will be an \"official ambassador\" for the 2014 Sochi Games, organizers said Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ovechkin led the NHL in goals this past season with 56, and became the first repeat MVP since Buffalo's Dominik Hasek in 1997-98. Ovechkin played for Russia at the 2006 Turin Olympics and is expected to lead the team at next year's Winter Games in Vancouver.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The announcement of his role with Sochi coincided with celebrations marking the two-year anniversary since the Black Sea resort was awarded the Games.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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