1. Alexander Ovechkin became the third 800 player in NHL history. Also in the regular season, Wayne Gretzky (894) and Gordie Howe (801) took this height.
2. So far, even on the horizon, it’s unclear who can become the fourth for this club. Among youngsters, they are Auston Matthews (274), Connor McDavid (265), David Pastrnak (259), but they need at least 10 seasons to score 50 league goals.
3. Moreover, Ovechkin himself can go even further. PK Subban, now a TV analyst, believes Ovi will score 1,000 goals during his NHL career. And we agree with him!
4. Ovechkin averages 0.62 goals per game during his career. Play him under contract for another 51 games and three seasons. Purely mathematically, Alexander will have 183 more goals with this trend. Add that to 800 – that’s very close to a thousand!
5. Alexander Ovechkin scored the 29th hat trick of his NHL regular season career. The record holder here is Gretzky (50).
6. And Ovi has scored hat tricks against 18 teams in NHL history. Not so little!
7. After the success of the match against Chicago (7-3), Ovechkin rose to fifth place in the list of the best scorers of the season (20). Ahead are Leon Draisaitl (21), Jason Robertson and Taige Thompson (23 each), as well as Connor McDavid (26).
8. Ovechkin opened the scoring for the 136th time in his career, breaking an all-time NHL solo record. Previously, Ovi shared it with Jaromir Jagr (135).
9. Most often, Ovechkin hit the doors of Winnipeg (51 goals), which was formerly based in the state of Georgia and was called Atlanta. In second place is Tampa (50). More than 40 Ovi goals have been received by Carolina (47), Philadelphia (46), Florida (43), the Islanders and Rangers (42 each), as well as Toronto (41).
10. Ovechkin scored the fewest against Seattle (3), but the team is in only its second NHL season, and Alexander has only played four games against it.
11. In total, the Russian striker has scored goals against 165 goalkeepers in his career. Among them, four have already entered the NHL Hall of Fame – these are Martin Brodeur, Dominik Hasek, Ed Belfour and Roberto Luongo.
12. No player in NHL history has scored 800 goals for one club – only Ovechkin, who made Washington so famous.
13. The Russian scored his first goal on October 5, 2005 against Columbus.
14. Ovechkin scored his 100th goal on October 12, 2007 in a game with Rangers. 167 games later. Later in his career, the striker needed a maximum of 190 matches to break into the next hundred.
15. After 130 games, Ovechkin scored the 200th goal. This happened on February 5, 2009 during a game with Los Angeles.
16. Two years and 178 games later, on April 5, 2011, the milestone of 300 goals was crossed. Striker “Washington” scored in a match with “Toronto”.
17. It took 162 games for Ovechkin to break the next cutoff. He scored his 400th goal on December 20, 2013 against Carolina.
18. On January 10, 2016, the Russian broke the 500-goal mark in a game against Ottawa. It took him 168 meetings to get there.
19. Ovechkin had to wait 190 games for his 600th NHL goal. It happened on March 12, 2018 during a game with Winnipeg.
20. 155 games later, on February 22, 2020, Ovechkin scored his 700th goal against New Jersey.
21. It took the Russian forward 162 games to reach 800 NHL goals. Gretzky has spent 231 games on this path and Howe has spent 256 games. To be more specific, Howe went there for 11 years, as he was leaving to play in the WHA.
22. Alexander Ovechkin has scored 124 career game-winning goals. Only Jaromir Jagr (135) is ahead in NHL history.
23. In 162 career NHL games, Ovi has scored more than one goal. Only Gretzky is ahead (189).
24. Ovechkin scored 270 NHL goals when his team took the lead. All time record.
25. The forward has scored 53 empty-net goals in NHL history, only Gretzky is up (56).
26. Ovechkin’s 25 overtime goals is an all-time league record.
27. Alexander has 140 goals, thanks to which the team tied the score – and this is also an absolute NHL record.
28. Ovechkin scored 503 goals in equal compositions (62.9% of the total). Only Jaromir Jagr (538), Gordie Howe (566) and Wayne Gretzky (617) have more in league history.
29. And in the majority – 292 goals (36.5% of the total). This is the best result in history.
30. The remaining five goals in personal statistics Ovi scored in the minority (0.6% of the total).
31. Regarding the division into home and away matches, Ovechkin scored 391 goals at home (48.9% of the total). This is the fifth result in history.
32. And on the road – 409 goals (51.1% of the total). It’s the best record in the league.
33. Ovechkin scored 800 goals in 6278 days, that is, it took him 17 years, two months and eight days to achieve this.
34. When Ovechkin scored goal number 800, he was assisted by Anthony Manta and Evgeny Kuznetsov. In total, he had 107 different assistants in his career.
35. And 39 times Ovechkin scored without any assistants.
36. Ovechkin ranks second in NHL history in shots on target (6,195). But in the next matches he will be able to overtake the leader of this indicator – defender Ray Burke (6209).
37. Russians average 0.62 goals per game. For comparison, Gretzky has 0.44 goals, Howe has 0.39. In this respect they are not competitors of Alexander the Great.
38. Preliminary estimates have Ovechkin catching and passing Howe (801) in a three-game home series against Dallas, Toronto and Detroit.
39. But to score goal number 895, if there are no injuries, he should do so in the 2024/25 season. While maintaining the current pace.
40. In total, Ovechkin scored 165 goalkeepers, but immediately 15 of them received at least 10 goals from Sasha. Generously!
41. Ovi scored his 20th goal of the season. He has already won the 18th championship in a row by conquering this skyscraper. Only Brendan Shanahan (19) and Howe (22) have more.
42. If you count after the thirtieth birthday, Ovechkin scored 325 goals. According to this indicator, he is the seventh player in NHL history, after Gordie Howe (415), Phil Esposito (391), Johnny Butsik (374), Teemu Selanne (338), Jean Ratell (337) and Brett Hull (328) .
43. Among active players, only Joe Pavelski (240) and Patrice Bergeron (204) have scored at least 200 goals since the age of 30.
44. After his 30th birthday, Alexander Ovechkin (0.60) is on the same schedule as Bobby Hull (0.6) and close to Mario Lemieux (0.62).
45. During his career, the Russian forward has played against 31 hockey players who have already entered the NHL Hall of Fame. We have already named four goalkeepers – the same Luongo has scored nine goals. And he scored the most goals, having played 66 head-to-head games against current Montreal head coach Martin St. Louis (42 goals – St. Louis scored 25 goals).
46. Ovechkin also scored two free throws: January 17, 2010 against Philadelphia (Ray Emery) and October 9, 2010 against New Jersey (Marten Brodeur).
47. Ovechkin’s contract in the NHL is valid until July 1, 2026.
48. If one of the records that Alexander the Great does not have time to beat, then he can sign a new contract with Washington – he will be only 40 years old.
49. Ovechkin guaranteed that the last game of his career will be in the KHL – for Dynamo Moscow.
50. Ovechkin now has two sons – two-year-old Ilya and four-year-old Sergey. As Alexander said in an interview with , he dreams of playing with them in the same hockey troika, but does not know when it will be.
Source : MatchTV
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