Four-time Stanley Cup winner Wayne Gretzky in an interview with CNBC, he expressed hope that he would be the first to congratulate the striker “Washington” Alexandra Ovechkina when he broke his record for most goals in an NHL regular season.
Ovechkin scored 25 points (15 goals and 10 assists) in 18 games this season. In total, he has 868 goals in the regular season, according to this indicator he is second only to Gretzky (894). Earlier in the match against Utah, the Russian forward was injured, and later it turned out that the Capitals captain would miss four to six weeks due to a fractured left fibula.
— Ovechkin and I are good friends. You know, the thing about the NHL is that when we were contemplating retirement, we kind of wondered what was going to happen to our sport. And when Mario Lemieux retired, we asked ourselves: what will happen to our game? And then Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin showed up. Now that they are getting older, we wonder what will happen next. Alex is a special young man. I am very proud of what I achieved with 894 goals. Nothing can take that away from me. But you know that Alex has proven to be an exceptional player both in our sport in general and in Washington. “I hope I’ll be the first to shake his hand when he breaks the record,” Gretzky said on CNBC.
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