Olympic champion and two-time Stanley Cup winner Pavel Datsyuk said if the Washington Capitals advance Alexander Ovechkin will break the sniper record Wayne Gretzky in the NHL, it will be a great achievement in hockey.
Ovechkin is 38 years old and has been playing for Washington since 2005. The Russian forward ranks second on the list of best snipers in NHL history with 853 goals, just behind Canadian Gretzky (894).
– It will be a great success. We all care about this and want it to happen, to make it happen. And yes, I understand that the more we advance, the more difficult it becomes. Many are worried and believe that Alexander will succeed and break the record. Everyone will have their own story about them. “I will tell you how we were at Dynamo Moscow,” reports the correspondent of , according to Datsyuk’s words.
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