Player Discussion Alexander Ovechkin (Vol. 4)

[Fred22406Capsfan]

Want to see Ovie score 60 goals this year!!!

Man the main board would lose their collective *cough* Canadian *cough* minds!

 

[Ridley Simon]

Want to see Ovie score 60 goals this year!!!

50 would be amazing. But after losing 16 games (20% of the season), that is a hill too tall to climb, sadly.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

Man the main board would lose their collective *cough* Canadian *cough* minds!

Records are meant to be broken...Gretzky broke Howe's...Richard broke Malone's 44 by scoring 50...Selanne 76 broke Bossy's, Perreault Broke Ferguson/Grants,Martin broke Perreault's and on and on its fricking exciting and it doesn't matter the Nationality it brings Hockey to the Forefront and shows Hockey to be the Greatest Game on Earth

50 would be amazing. But after losing 16 games (20% of the season), that is a hill too tall to climb, sadly.

Have faith Ovie has the ability to go on some mean streaks...

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

And

Its going to be close. If he does it this year, it'll be the last month. Not much margin now. I still bet he does it this year.

Ovie will get a break in Feb for the 4 Nations thing too I see him potting 60 goals baby!!!

 

[usiel]

He needs 3 more goals to hit 400 from age 30 and on.

397 goals in 688 games. 47.3 goals over 82 games.

Howe - 415
Esposito - 409
Ovechkin - 397
Bucyk - 374
Selanne - 338
Brett Hull - 328
Dionne - 321
Messier - 314
Jagr - 306
Gartner - 304

I still wonder where Jagr would be on the points/goals list if he hadn't sojourned to the KHL for those few years in his 30s.

 

[BallardEra]

I still wonder where Jagr would be on the points/goals list if he hadn't sojourned to the KHL for those few years in his 30s.

Hard to say because he mentioned that he came back to the NHL after missing it. By age 34 he had dropped to 30 goals and then by age 35 he had dropped to 25. He had 71 points in his last season before going to the KHL.

He missed three NHL seasons (age 36-38) so I’d say he lost 65-70 potential goals and 170-185 points during that time.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Yeah. Jagr didn’t really think that whole KHL thing thru, did he.

Huh. He didn’t think something thru. Pretty shocking

Dude has always been a lunkhead. Always.

 

[ovikovy817]

Jagr said himself several times that if he didn't went to the KHL his career would be over. (and so no return to the NHL)

 

[BallardEra]

Current career goals per game rate:

Ovechkin - .6018
Gretzky - .6012

 

[stanleycaps18]

Imagine if Ovi hadn't lost almost two seasons ti lockouts.

 

[Chokingdogs]

Imagine if Ovi hadn't lost almost two seasons ti lockouts.

I imagine the conversation would entail how many post 1K goals he would accumulate.

 

[BallardEra]

44 goals in his last 65 games.

21 goals to go with 37 games left.

 

[Langway]

Caught this from RMNB:

 

[Fred22406Capsfan]

I imagine the conversation would entail how many post 1K goals he would accumulate.

Our Canadian neighbors might have even had time to get over it by now!

 

[BallardEra]

NHL Goals from rookie season and on including age 30 season * :

Gretzky - 736
Bossy - 573
Lemieux - 563
Ovechkin - 525
Yzerman - 517
Jagr - 501
Dionne - 488
Goulet - 487
Hawerchuk - 483
Hull - 482 (Bobby)


* I actually went into game logs for players that turned age 31 during that season and only included goals for their respective age 30 for that season.



Most goals from age 30 season and on:

Howe - 415
Esposito - 409
Ovechkin - 399
Bucyk - 374
Selanne - 338
Brett Hull - 328
Dionne - 321
Messier - 314
Jagr - 306
Gartner - 304


Most goals from age 31 season and on:

Howe - 383
Ovechkin - 349
Bucyk - 347
Esposito - 337
Ratelle - 311
Selanne - 305
Hull - 299 (Brett)
Messier - 280
Jagr - 265
Mullen - 258