COLUMBUS, Ohio – Whether it’s the school yard kick ball team or the NHL All-Star draft, no one wants to be picked last. Not even NHL players at the top of their game want to sit in that crowded little draft room and wait and wait for someone to call their name.

To combat some of the awkwardness, the NHL offers the person picked last a brand new car. This year it’s a Honda Accord, which is something professional athletes who make millions of dollars will have a hard time affording on their own.

Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin isn’t one of those players that should have to worry about being picked last, but he tried to get ahead of a potentially awkward situation.

When NBC’s Pierre McGuire asked Ovi where he thought he’d go in the draft, he deadpanned, “I want to be last. I need a new car.”

It could have been a planned gag to avoid any hurt feelings, or it could be a spontaneous gag to avoid hurt feelings.

Either way, Ovi doubled down on his need to win a new Honda Accord.

Sadly, Ovi and the new Honda Accord were not to be. He was drafted third to last by Team Foligno.

After the draft, Jonathan Kane and Patrick Kane admitted they’d planned on making Ovi sweat a little.

“Talk before the whole event was that we might let him slide to the end,” Toews said. “And I think he embraced that fact a little bit too much.”