Founder of the Fight Nights promotion Kamil Hajiyev in an interview with , he expressed confidence that for the foreseeable future the striker “Washington” Alexander Ovechkin will be ranked first in the list of the best snipers in history NHL .
Ovechkin has been with the Capitals since 2005 and won the Stanley Cup in 2018. With 809 regular season NHL goals, the 37-year-old is the second-leading scorer in league history. Wayne Gretzky is number one with 894 goals.
– It is feared that in the next two years something will happen that will not allow Sasha to bypass Gretzky. But these can only be non-sport related factors.
If all goes well, he himself will already reach this record, everyone understands that. In three seasons, Ovechkin will eliminate 80 goals for anyone. Now you are afraid of political cataclysms, when a person with a Russian surname and a Russian passport simply cannot live in the United States. But I hope it won’t come to that.
Will there be powerful opponents to this record in North America? Maybe they will. But they will certainly fall on those who are for this disc. And there are many such people among Americans. The same people from Washington. They’re all for Ovechkin’s case, and it’s a pretty big lobby, considering the White House is located in the capital.
The crunch moment, when something could go wrong, was in the first quarter of last year. But he remained in the past. If they wanted to shake Ovechkin off the United States, they would have done it already. In this regard, it will not be worse, so Sanya will achieve the record.
Now they don’t give me a US visa. Even though it was 10 years ago. But when Ovechkin approaches the record, I want to go to America for a month and go there for every Washington game, because I want to witness that record, Gadzhiev told .
Source : MatchTV
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