Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov told that if Alexander Ovechkin scored in an empty goal all the time, then the sniper record Wayne Gretzky in the NHL has long been beaten.
Washington’s Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin scored against Boston in an NHL regular season game and broke Gretzky’s record for most goals scored into an empty net. The match in Boston ended with a score of 3:0 in favor of the Capitals. In the last minute of the third period, the 38-year-old forward 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.
— Gretzky’s broken record for empty-net goals is a good prerequisite for Ovechkin to break the perennial record. The foundations of the bridgehead have been built, very little remains. Now, before the end of the season, Alexander must score as many goals as possible in order to confidently continue the pursuit of the record next season. It is possible that next year will be the home stretch for him. Don’t worry about Alexander’s form, everyone has setbacks. If he had scored into an empty net all the time, Gretzky’s record for the number of goals in regular NHL championships would have been broken a long time ago,” Kozhevnikov told .
Ovechkin increased his NHL goal total to 834 and closed the gap on Gretzky’s record to 60 goals.
Source : MatchTV
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