Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL objectives file of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky.
Ovechkin has 889 objectives and wants 5 to tie and 6 to interrupt the file.
Ovechkin entered the season 42 in need of breaking the regular-season file by “The Nice One” that had lengthy appeared unapproachable. The 39-year-old Russian is in his twentieth NHL season and was on tempo to get to 895 in February earlier than breaking his left leg in a shin-on-shin collision in November. He missed 16 video games however resumed his pursuit at Toronto within the Capitals’ first sport out of the Christmas break.
Alex Ovechkin’s final purpose scored
With Winnipeg main by a purpose late within the third interval Tuesday evening, Ovechkin received the puck from linemate Aliaksei Protas and and fired a wrist shot previous Vezina Trophy front-runner Connor Hellebuyck to tie it with 4 minutes left. The Capitals misplaced in extra time.
What file s does Ovechkin have already got?
Ovechkin already owns the NHL data for power-play objectives and pictures on purpose.
He additionally has 135 game-winning objectives, tied for probably the most with Jaromir Jagr. Ovechkin has scored on 182 totally different goaltenders, breaking Jagr’s file by beating Leevi Merilainen of the Senators with No. 874. Ovechkin has 178 multi-goal video games, second to Gretzky (189).
Ovechkin earlier this season grew to become the sixtieth participant to file 700 profession assists. He joined Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Jagr, Marcel Dionne and Phil Esposito as the one gamers with 700 objectives and 700 assists.
Who’re the NHL’s main scorers?
Ovechkin, after climbing previous Mike Gartner (708), Esposito (717), Dionne (731), Brett Hull (741) and Jagr (766), scored purpose No. 802 on Dec. 23, 2022, to maneuver into second behind Gretzky (894).
Who beforehand held the profession objectives file?
Gretzky has held the file since scoring his 802nd purpose on March 23, 1994, to cross Howe. He added 92 extra earlier than retiring in 1999 after a complete of 1,487 video games over 20 seasons.
Gretzky holds 55 NHL data and even when his objectives mark falls to Ovechkin — which he has stated he’s enthusiastic about — two appear really untouchable: 2,857 complete factors and 1,963 assists, which is greater than anybody else has in objectives and assists mixed.
For NHL playoff objectives, which don’t depend towards the file, Gretzky has probably the most (122). Ovechkin has 72. Gretzky additionally had one other 56 within the World Hockey Affiliation common season and playoffs, whereas Ovechkin has 57 from his time within the Russia-based KHL.
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