Ovechkin milestone thread - 850 and Beyond!

[TJHKY]

 

[TJHKY]

 

[filinski77]

Goal #40 to tie Wayne for number of 40 goal seasons (12). Incredible.

Ovechkin taking another big NHL record. Love to see it.

 

[M2Beezy]

Man I love this player

 

[kaiser matias]

I can't remember where I met them exactly but it wasn't in Itaewon. I think it was in Eastern Seoul. Maybe Gangnam-guchang?

Not much interest from Koreans about hockey. Just the English teachers and especially from Canada. Jim Paek (former NHLer with the Pens) ran a hockey equipment store, though.

There was a crowd of us in Anyang, as we worked a block from the arena and used to go to the Halla games all the time. An Irish guy actually owns a bar in the Bumgye district that the players would frequent (they also sent their kids to our school).

But we were mostly Canadians, with a few Americans and other foreigners, not a lot of Koreans into the sport like you said.

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

A goal in 4 straight games. Not bad.

 

[TJHKY]

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

This is wild. Always appreciate the people who say that he’s just a volume shooter like that’s a bad thing. Getting your shot off is an actual skill and it’s something very hard to do in the NHL, especially when everyone knows you’re going to shoot.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

4 points away from 1,400 career points. Should happen some time within the next week or so.

Now 10 goals away from 50 with 18 games remaining. Ovechkin has 11 goals in his past 18 games, he simply needs to maintain current pace to get there.

 

[Video Nasty]

Honestly, this has been his finest season in over a decade to me.

I’m almost as excited to see him reach 40 assists and cross 90 points in a season again as I am for all the goal milestones.

He started his career with 6 straight 40+ assists seasons (ranging from 46-59) and 5 straight 90+ point seasons. He could do both for the first time in 11-12 years.

If he gets to 93 points this year, it would be the 5th highest total of his career.

I actually want Gretzky to hold onto the goals record, but I can really get behind this version of Ovechkin playing so well rounded at the end of his career breaking it.

Looking like he’s on track to pass Howe before the end of the first half of next season.

 

[HTFN]

This is wild. Always appreciate the people who say that he’s just a volume shooter like that’s a bad thing. Getting your shot off is an actual skill and it’s something very hard to do in the NHL, especially when everyone knows you’re going to shoot.

and when the same people will value shot suppression in defense or any shot related metric...

 

[Nsjohnson]

Honestly, this has been his finest season in over a decade to me.

I’m almost as excited to see him reach 40 assists and cross 90 points in a season again as I am for all the goal milestones.

He started his career with 6 straight 40+ assists seasons (ranging from 46-59) and 5 straight 90+ point seasons. He could do both for the first time in 11-12 years.

If he gets to 93 points this year, it would be the 5th highest total of his career.

I actually want Gretzky to hold onto the goals record, but I can really get behind this version of Ovechkin playing so well rounded at the end of his career breaking it.

Looking like he’s on track to pass Howe before the end of the first half of next season.

If I looked correctly, there are 6 of the remaining 18 games that are played against inferior teams (the Buffalo's, Habs, Yotes, etc).

The rest of the games are are quite good teams. Although he scores on all teams.

I think he's got 10 in him. He's been on a roll.

Last season he scored 10 in his last 18.
in 19-20 he scored 13 in last 18 (although it was weird because some of that was January).
18-19 he scored 7 in last 18.
17-18 he scored 10 in last 18.
16-17 he scored 6 in last 18.
15-16 he scored 9 in last 18.
14-15 he scored 14 in last 18.
13-14 he scored 7 in last 18.

He has a shot for sure. He heated back up in the past couple of weeks. He had that short drought and then 11 in his past 14.

He needs just 10 in 18.

I think he ends with 50g 42a for 92 points.

 

[Mulletman]

If I looked correctly, there are 6 of the remaining 18 games that are played against inferior teams (the Buffalo's, Habs, Yotes, etc).

The rest of the games are are quite good teams. Although he scores on all teams.

I think he's got 10 in him. He's been on a roll.

Last season he scored 10 in his last 18.
in 19-20 he scored 13 in last 18 (although it was weird because some of that was January).
18-19 he scored 7 in last 18.
17-18 he scored 10 in last 18.
16-17 he scored 6 in last 18.
15-16 he scored 9 in last 18.
14-15 he scored 14 in last 18.
13-14 he scored 7 in last 18.

He has a shot for sure. He heated back up in the past couple of weeks. He had that short drought and then 11 in his past 14.

He needs just 10 in 18.

I think he ends with 50g 42a for 92 points.

It will be interesting to see. Capitals have 18 games left and play 16 different teams. Ovechkin is still goalless against 9 of those teams this year. What's really crazy is that Ovechkin still hasn't scored a goal against New Jersey, Pittsburgh or Philadelphia this year. And no goals against Boston, Montreal or Toronto either, but he's probably going to score a couple against my Leafs as we still have 2 games against Ovechkin and have been letting in goals left and right lately...

 

[BallardEra]

It will also be interesting to see the media build up next year as he nears the 800 mark and Howe's 801.

If healthy, he should be at around 815-825 goals when next season comes to an end.

After that it will seem like a long, long wait until 894.

 

[Zuluss]

It will also be interesting to see the media build up next year as he nears the 800 mark and Howe's 801.

If healthy, he should be at around 815-825 goals when next season comes to an end.

After that it will seem like a long, long wait until 894.

We will still have milestones to celebrate in 2023/24 if things go well: goal #850, 18th 30-goal season (most all-time), PP goal #300, #3 all-time in career points among all wingers, probably even top10 ever in career points.

 

[Demandedace]

We will still have milestones to celebrate in 2023/24 if things go well: goal #850, 18th 30-goal season (most all-time), PP goal #300, #3 all-time in career points among all wingers, probably even top10 ever in career points.

God willing he could take the 40Goal season crown from Wayne too

 

[Voight]

Surprised Crosby hasn't done this given the Flyers have dressed like 67 different goalies during his career

 

[Fallschirmyager]

I can't remember where I met them exactly but it wasn't in Itaewon. I think it was in Eastern Seoul. Maybe Gangnam-guchang?

Not much interest from Koreans about hockey. Just the English teachers and especially from Canada. Jim Paek (former NHLer with the Pens) ran a hockey equipment store, though.

There was a crowd of us in Anyang, as we worked a block from the arena and used to go to the Halla games all the time. An Irish guy actually owns a bar in the Bumgye district that the players would frequent (they also sent their kids to our school).

But we were mostly Canadians, with a few Americans and other foreigners, not a lot of Koreans into the sport like you said.

Loved my time in Korea. Pan Mun Jom. Off time was mostly around Munsan but at least once every month or so down in Itaewon. I got maybe 2 or 3 hockey games a season back then.

 

[kaiser matias]

Loved my time in Korea. Pan Mun Jom. Off time was mostly around Munsan but at least once every month or so down in Itaewon. I got maybe 2 or 3 hockey games a season back then.

I was only there a year, but I just didn't find it to be my place. Fun times at the hockey games though for sure. You could bring your own food and drink, so a colleague had two season tickets: one for himself, one for a mini-keg he'd bring to every game, and sell cups to people.

Whole expat community in town would go to games, and then the pub afterward. And seeing half the Korean Olympic team (I was there during the 2018 Olympics) was pretty neat.

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

We will still have milestones to celebrate in 2023/24 if things go well: goal #850, 18th 30-goal season (most all-time), PP goal #300, #3 all-time in career points among all wingers, probably even top10 ever in career points.

He's at 282 career power play goals. If he gets 3 more this year for a total of 285, he could conceivably get to 300 in 2022-23.

 

[Fallschirmyager]

I was only there a year, but I just didn't find it to be my place. Fun times at the hockey games though for sure. You could bring your own food and drink, so a colleague had two season tickets: one for himself, one for a mini-keg he'd bring to every game, and sell cups to people.

Whole expat community in town would go to games, and then the pub afterward. And seeing half the Korean Olympic team (I was there during the 2018 Olympics) was pretty neat.

I was there right after the 88 olympics. lol

 

[DRW895]

 

[ViD]

if not for the lockouts and COVID cancellations, he would’ve been closing on Wayne by now

 

[Fallschirmyager]

Doesn't he also already hold the most 45 goal+ seasons as well?
Most 50 goal seasons is still 9? Gretzky/Bossy?

 

[Zuluss]

Doesn't he also already hold the most 45 goal+ seasons as well?
Most 50 goal seasons is still 9? Gretzky/Bossy?

Ovechkin has 11 seasons with 45+ goals
Gretzky and Bossy have 9
Lemieux and Dionne have 8
Everyone else has at most 6

Ovechkin has been relatively unlucky in getting to 50, 2019/20 being the prime example