Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is closing in on being one of the achieved gamers in NHL historical past. The legendary ahead already has a ton of data on the NHL historical past books, however there’s yet another nonetheless to go that might put him within the pantheon of all-time greats.
With the 2024-25 season now in progress, Ovechkin is on the verge of changing into the NHL’s all-time objectives chief. Ovechkin can go Wayne Gretzky’s mark (894) in the course of the 2024-25 common season. The Capitals standout at present has 861 profession objectives, so he would want to rack up simply 34 extra objectives this season as a way to high 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 complete 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 in the course of the 2022-23 season, and has tallied not less than 41 objectives in 13 of his 19 NHL seasons.
Ovechkin at present has tallied 1,566 factors (861 objectives, 705 assists) in his skilled profession. 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 respect.
Ovechkin scored his eighth purpose of the season in a 3-2 win in opposition to the Nashville Predators on Nov. 6. That helped Ovechkin preserve the tempo he must catch Gretzky by the top of the common season. Proper now, Ovechkin is on tempo for 55 objectives, which might be sufficient to surpass “The Nice One.”
Ovechkin will seemingly proceed to be a longtime power on the Capitals’ high power-play unit, so there can 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 preserve observe of Ovechkin’s objectives all through the 2024-25 season and preserve tabs on how shut he’s to eclipsing Gretzky’s all-time report.
