Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is on the verge of turning into one of the crucial achieved gamers in NHL historical past.

Enter the 2024-25 season, Ovechkin is closing in on turning into the NHL’s all-time objectives chief. Ovechkin comes into the 12 months with an opportunity to surpass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time objectives report (894) through the 2024-25 common season. The Capitals standout at the moment has 853 profession objectives, so he would want to rack up 42 objectives as a way to prime Gretzky’s league report.

The 2023-24 marketing campaign proved to be a mortal one for Ovechkin, who scored 31 objectives final season. Ovechkin’s 31 objectives was his lowest goal-scoring whole since he netted 32 objectives 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 through the 2022-23 season, and has tallied a minimum of 41 objectives in 13 of his 19 NHL seasons.

Ovechkin at the moment has tallied 1,550 factors (853 objectives, 697 assists) getting into the 2024-25 marketing campaign. He did make much more historical past in 2023-24 when he registered an NHL report 18th 30-goal season as he handed Mike Gartner (17) for the distinction.

Ovechkin will open the 2024-25 season towards the New Jersey Devils on Saturday, Oct. 12. The Capitals open the marketing campaign with a three-game house stand earlier than hitting the highway to begin off the season.

Ovechkin will seemingly proceed to be a longtime drive on the Capitals’ prime power-play unit, so there will likely 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 objectives over the primary two months of the season.

CBS Sports activities will maintain observe of Ovechkin’s objectives all through the 2024-25 season and maintain tabs on how shut he’s to eclipsing Gretzky’s all-time report.