Pronouncing Ovechkin

Dude, I'm Russian too and before teaching somebody, you better learn how to transliterate, transcript and spell, because your pronunciation does not make any sense in English and Russian whatsoever. In modern Russian it's Ah-Vech-Kin. You'll kill yourself trying pronounce Aey... Geeze. Sorry folks, not all Russian are dumb as this one.

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As bad as North Americans are in pronouncing foreign names wrong, they wouldn't be doing it if Ovechkin actually spells it in English it exactly the way it sounds in Russian.  Secondly, if Ovechkin actually corrected it the first time it was pronounced wrong in English, that would have also helped.

It'S impossible for him to use Latin letters first to spell it right and it's even more impossible considering it will be read by english speakers.

It's not an A, it's not an O. It's near an english A, but it's more of an hard french a like you would hear in Quebec or a clear à in France. I can't even see of a Latin reference which is correct.

But, if you say Avetchkin, it will already be better than Ovechkin.

Who the fuck cares? They are playing hockey in the US, we speak english in the US, so it makes sense to say Ovechkin.

Around Montreal, the analysts take time to ask the player himself how his name must be pronounced.

Learn that it is annoying to hear pronounciation mistakes in your own language, especially big ones.

English speakers always screw the pronunciation of foreign words and names because english is poor in sounds variety.

I laugh when I hear them use the expressions:
à la mode or plat de résistance.

GAY......OOOOOvechkin get it right,

Theres also Ko VAL chook and semyon VAR LAA MARV. and Nikolai HABIBI BULL IN. thats how u pronounce there names as well.

Actually O-O-vechkin is pretty much valid and classic pronunciation in Russian as well. In modern Russian first O in many regions sounds like "A", but if you say "O", nobody will blame you for that. :) And Varlamov is VAHR-LAH-MOV, not MARV.

Ovechkin ..Avechkin ...

you guys pronounce it right ... almost the same as original prononciation