Down-the-line.com/Hockey. The Russian captain of the “Washington Capitals” Alexander Ovechkin has reduced the backlog in the list of all the top scorers in the history of the NHL of the legendary Gordie Howe to a minimum.

The Russian scored a hat trick in the NHL regular season game with the Chicago Blackhawks. The match ended with the score of 7:3.

Now the 37-year-old forward has 20 goals in a season and 800 career NHL goals. Howe has scored 801 goals in his career. And Canadian Wayne Gretzky leads the list with 894 goals.

Ovechkin scored a hat-trick against Chicago

That hat trick put Ovechkin second in total goals scored in the regular season and NHL playoffs. Ovechkin now has a total of 872 goals.

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