Advertisers see him as toxic and have done the right thing and dropped him. Fans in DC, our nation's capital, seem willing to give him a pass for his steadfast support of Putin even as we see daily atrocities in Ukraine. Today, Ovechkin's friend has bombed a maternity hospital in Ukraine, but that does nothing to shake Ovechkin's high-profile support of Putin.

Panarin keeps calling him out, maybe it will bring more attention to the issue.