section_path: Off the ice/Philanthropy
section_name: Philanthropy
paragraph_text: Philanthropy
  
  In 2006, Ovechkin created a program called Ovi's Crazy 8's, a program through which he purchases and donates eight Capitals season tickets to Most Valuable Kids which allows fans who normally wouldn’t have access to tickets the opportunity to attend Capitals home games. As of 2024, more than 5,700 individuals have had a chance to see a game free of charge through this program.
  
  Since 2014, Ovechkin has been an ambassador for the American Special Hockey Association, a charity which supports individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities and the mission to give them a chance to learn and grow by playing ice hockey.
  
  In March 2025, Ovechkin announced that he would be partnering up with Hockey Fights Cancer and the V Foundation to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer for every goal he scores as he closed in on breaking the all time goal-scoring record.
  
  In 2006, Ovechkin created a program called Ovi's Crazy 8's, a program through which he purchases and donates eight Capitals season tickets to Most Valuable Kids which allows fans who normally wouldn’t have access to tickets the opportunity to attend Capitals home games. As of 2024, more than 5,700 individuals have had a chance to see a game free of charge through this program.
  
  Since 2014, Ovechkin has been an ambassador for the American Special Hockey Association, a charity which supports individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities and the mission to give them a chance to learn and grow by playing ice hockey.
  
  In March 2025, Ovechkin announced that he would be partnering up with Hockey Fights Cancer and the V Foundation to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer for every goal he scores as he closed in on breaking the all time goal-scoring record.