Nah, Ovie is very passionate. It's just hard to tell with Russians. It's been that way forever in hockey
When somebody is interviewed and responds to the question, "who is your favorite player currently playing" with the answer "me," he is not much of a passion player in my view...
He was joking. Russians, because of the language barrier, are really hard to figure out. look at guys like Pavel Datsyuk. He loves the game but you can't tell because he can't into english.