Alex Ovechkin has a reason to keep celebrating as the Washington Capitals captain became a father for the first time Saturday.
Ovechkin's wife Nastya Ovechkina gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Sergei Aleksandrovich Ovechkin.
The elder Ovechkin shared a glimpse of young Sergei on Instagram, captioning it in Russian: "Thank you my girl for the very best day of my life."
Ovechkin named his son after his elder brother who died following a car accident when Alex was 10 years old. When Ovechkin had his day with the Stanley Cup, one of the stops was his brother's gravesite.