Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is among the most heralded gamers in NHL historical past. The legendary ahead has already etched his title in historical past, however he is nonetheless chasing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time objectives document.
Ovechkin is on the verge of changing into the NHL’s all-time objectives chief, and he can go Gretzky’s mark of 894 earlier than the tip of season. The Capitals standout presently has 887 profession objectives after scoring a chip-in aim within the third interval in a Saturday rout of the San Jose Sharks.
The aim, his thirty fourth of the season, got here one week after Ovechkin turned the eleventh participant in NHL historical past to succeed in 1,600 factors.
He now wants eight extra objectives in Washington’s 15 remaining video games with a view to high Gretzky’s document this season.
The 2023-24 marketing campaign proved to be a mortal one for Ovechkin the place he scored 31 objectives, his lowest whole in a full-length season of his profession. 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 in the course of the 2022-23 season, and has tallied at the very least 41 objectives in 13 of his 19 NHL seasons.
Ovechkin presently has tallied 1,603 factors (887 objectives, 717 assists) in his skilled profession. He made much more historical past in 2023-24 when he registered an NHL document 18th 30-goal season, passing Mike Gartner’s 17 for the respect. He is now as much as 19 for his profession.
At this season’s tempo, given well being, Ovechkin would surpass “The Nice One” earlier than the tip of the common season.
Ovechkin will seemingly proceed to be a longtime drive on the Capitals’ high power-play unit, so there figures to be loads of goal-scoring alternatives. He, clearly, has scored at a significantly 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 hold monitor of Ovechkin’s objectives all through the season and hold tabs on how shut he’s to eclipsing Gretzky’s all-time document.
