The Russian attackerWashington » Alexander Ovechkin scored a goal against Boston in an NHL regular season game and broke Wayne’s record Gretzky by the number of pucks thrown into an empty goal.
The match in Boston ended with a score of 3:0 in favor of the Capitals. In the last minute of the third period, Ovechkin hit the empty net of the hosts – this is the Russian’s twelfth goal of the season and the 57th in his NHL career into an empty net.
Thus, the Russian broke the record of Canadian Gretzky, who scored 56 goals into an empty net during his career.
Ovechkin increased his NHL goal total to 834 and closed the gap on Gretzky’s record to 60 goals. The 38-year-old Russian ranks second on the list of best snipers in league history, followed by Canadian Wayne Gretzky (894).
Source : MatchTV
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