Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is among the most heralded gamers in NHL historical past. The legendary ahead already has a ton of data on the NHL historical past books, however he is nonetheless chasing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time objectives report.
Ovechkin is on the verge of turning into the NHL’s all-time objectives chief, and he can go Gretzky’s mark of 894 earlier than the top of season. The Capitals standout presently has 883 profession objectives after scoring Washington’s solely purpose in a 3-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night time. In his earlier outing, he posted his thirty second profession hat trick in opposition to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
He now wants 12 extra objectives within the crew’s remaining 24 video games as a way to prime Gretzky’s report this season.
The 2023-24 marketing campaign proved to be a mortal one for Ovechkin the place he scored 31 objectives, his lowest complete in a full-length season since he netted 32 within the 2012-13 season. Ovechkin did have simply 24 objectives in 2020-21, however that season was shortened as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
Ovechkin scored 42 objectives throughout the 2022-23 season, and has tallied a minimum of 41 objectives in 13 of his 19 NHL seasons.
Ovechkin presently has tallied 1,597 factors (883 objectives, 714 assists) in his skilled profession. He made much more historical past in 2023-24 when he registered an NHL report 18th 30-goal season, passing Mike Gartner’s 17 for the honour.
At this season’s tempo, given well being, Ovechkin would surpass “The Nice One” earlier than the top of the common season.
Ovechkin will probably proceed to be a longtime pressure on the Capitals’ prime power-play unit, so there figures to be loads of goal-scoring alternatives. He, clearly, has scored at a a lot better tempo than he did a yr in the past when he recorded simply 5 objectives over the primary two months of the season.
CBS Sports activities will preserve observe of Ovechkin’s objectives all through the season and preserve tabs on how shut he’s to eclipsing Gretzky’s all-time report.
