Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is closing in on being one of the vital achieved gamers in NHL historical past.

Because the 2024-25 season will get underway, Ovechkin is on the verge of changing into the NHL’s all-time targets chief. Ovechkin comes into the 12 months with an opportunity to surpass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time targets document (894) throughout the 2024-25 common season. The Capitals standout presently has 854 profession targets, so he would want to rack up 41 extra targets this season with a purpose to high Gretzky’s league document.

The 2023-24 marketing campaign proved to be a mortal one for Ovechkin, who scored 31 targets final season. Ovechkin’s 31 targets was his lowest goal-scoring whole since he netted 32 targets within the 2012-13 season. Ovechkin did have simply 24 targets in 2020-21, however that season was shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ovechkin scored 42 targets throughout the 2022-23 season, and has tallied at the least 41 targets in 13 of his 19 NHL seasons.

Ovechkin presently has tallied 1,554 factors (854 targets, 700 assists) in his skilled profession. He did make much more historical past in 2023-24 when he registered an NHL document 18th 30-goal season as he handed Mike Gartner (17) for the consideration.

Ovechkin scored his first objective of the 2024-25 season in a 6-5 extra time win towards the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 19. The Capitals star has tallied at the least one level in three of the workforce’s first 4 video games of the season.

Ovechkin will doubtless proceed to be a longtime power on the Capitals’ high power-play unit, so there shall be loads of goal-scoring alternatives. He’ll look to get off to a warmer begin than he did in 2023-24 when he recorded simply 5 targets over the primary two months of the season.

CBS Sports activities will preserve monitor of Ovechkin’s targets all through the 2024-25 season and preserve tabs on how shut he’s to eclipsing Gretzky’s all-time document.