Ovechkin on track to break Gretzky’s NHL career goals record

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing successful connected the NHL vocation goals grounds of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky.

Ovechkin has 868 goals aft scoring 15 successful the archetypal 18 games this season. He needs 27 to acceptable a caller record.

Ovechkin entered the play 42 abbreviated of breaking a grounds by “The Great One” that agelong seemed unapproachable. The 39-year-old Russian is successful his 20th NHL play and connected gait to get to 895 sometime successful precocious February.

Alex Ovechkin’s past extremity scored

Ovechkin scored doubly successful a 6-2 triumph implicit the Utah Hockey Club connected Monday night, getting goals 867 and 868 successful his archetypal crippled successful Salt Lake City earlier leaving successful the 3rd play with an evident near limb injury.

Ovechkin’s goals connected Utah goaltender Connor Ingram marked the 178th antithetic goaltender helium has scored connected successful his 20-year NHL career. He is tied for the league grounds with Jaromir Jagr. His archetypal extremity came with 8:55 near successful the archetypal period. He struck again 5:38 into the second.

It was his 177th multigoal game, which is 2nd to Gretzky (189).

When is Ovechkin’s adjacent game?

The Capitals play astatine location Thursday nighttime against the Colorado Avalanche, though Ovechkin’s presumption is uncertain aft being injured.

What are Ovechkin’s stats?

Ovechkin already owns the NHL records for power-play goals with 316 and shots connected extremity with 6,690.

He besides has 132 game-winning goals, 4 distant from breaking Jagr’s people (135).

Ovechkin has scored connected 178 antithetic goaltenders and counting, tying Jagr.

Ovechkin earlier this play became the 60th subordinate to grounds 700 vocation assists and is present astatine 707. He joined Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Jagr, Dionne and Phil Esposito arsenic the lone players with 700 goals and 700 assists.

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Who are the NHL’s starring scorers?

Ovechkin, aft climbing past Mike Gartner (708), Esposito (717), Dionne (731), Brett Hull (741) and Jagr (766), scored extremity No. 802 connected Dec. 23, 2022, to determination into 2nd all-time down Gretzky (894).

Who antecedently held the vocation goals record?

Gretzky has held the grounds since scoring his 802nd extremity connected March 23, 1994, to walk Howe. He added 92 much earlier retiring successful 1999 aft a full of 1,487 games implicit 20 seasons. Ovechkin has played successful 1,444 full games truthful far.

Gretzky holds 55 NHL records and adjacent if his goals people falls to Ovechkin — which helium has said repeatedly helium is excited astir — 2 look genuinely untouchable: 2,857 full points and 1,963 assists, which unsocial is much than anyone other has successful goals and assists combined.