Ovechkin milestone thread - 850 and Beyond!

[Zuluss]

With two assists today, Ovechkin passed Roenick and became #59 all-time in career assists.
Lucky Luc (#2 among LW in career assists) is only 22 assists away.

Also, back-to-back 3-point games and 4g+4a in 3 games must be a pretty good run for a 39-year-old.

 

[BallardEra]

He has 13 points in 10 games.

Last season he didn’t get his 13th point until game #20.

 

[Guadana]

Disagree.

I argued for years that one player can’t carry a team to a cup. Ovechkin couldn’t when he was the bonafide best player in the world. Crosby couldn’t carry a team to a cup. Gretzky couldn’t without the all star Oilers.

McDavid has been fantastic in the playoffs, not really much more you could ask of him.

No one cares.

But McDavid is very productive. We will see with how many points he will end. It really hard to understand now because he can play until 40+ or just stop somewhere.
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Still Ovechkin is absolutely generational. It really just the synonym of generational. Go to youtube and check how many views he has on his highlights and how many views have other players. Literally the whole generation of hockey players was growing on his example. The whole generation of hockey fans watched the competition between him and Crosby. Their competition was the big reason why hockey didnt lost a lot of attention. And its a big question who is more popular in the world. I would say its not even a question. McDavid in the same time isnt close as a figure. At least now.
And Ovechkins path to the best goal scorer of all time is making him generational just by the fact.

Someone can not agree with it - no one care. Everybody knows Ovechkin and everybody knows NHL because of Ovechkin now. He is literally the face of hockey generation. And his popularity is coming from his game, his results and his personality.

 

[SherVaughn30]

He is,

Gretzky isnt a top 3 goal scorer all time. Not in order the 4 best are

Lemieux
Bobby Hull
Gordie Howe
OV

The 4 best and most talented goal scorers in league history.

I would bump down Howe from that list. Howe played a lot more games than any of the others. You forgot about Mike Bossy!

 

[PlushMinus]

He's never been a defensive stalwart but the "one-dimensional" thing always struck me as salty.

While not an elite playmaker, he sees the ice well enough and has averaged about 40 assists per 82 games in his career. That's better than most middle-sixers, on top of being the greatest goal scorer of all time. At 39 he still moves the puck well around the offensive zone and makes some crafty passes.

Reading some of the offseason pearl-clutching posts, you'd think he has no business being in the league any longer and that the Caps are trotting him out to their own detriment.

Yep - and big surprise: none of the usual haters have been posting in here the last couple of weeks because they've got no ammunition.

Is this his first goal against this Tarasov guy?

He's scored 3 goals on 6 shots against Tarasov

 

[Jets4Life]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852831415164936686

 

[Fantomas]

The guy just knows how to get his body in optimum shape. It might be a round shape, but you can't argue with the results.

 

[Gnome17]

The guy just knows how to get his body in optimum shape. It might be a round shape, but you can't argue with the results.

Idk about round, its more like a brick.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

It's amazing he's that close in goals per game to Gretzky considering Gretzky had his prime in the 80s and early 90s and the League was much harder to score in during much of Ovechkin's prime.

Gretzky was obviously a better player, but I think Ovechkin is easily the better goal scorer of the two.

Ovi is already the greatest goal scorer of all time , it's pretty obvious. Him breaking the record would just leave no arguments for the detractors

 

[Fantomas]

Idk about round, its more like a brick.

Ovy definitely has a dadbod, but it's the ultimate dadbod

 

[hockeykicker]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852871294955536818

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Quite the resurgence at age 39. Even as a caps hater I have to give him props.

 

[Gnome17]

Ovy definitely has a dadbod, but it's the ultimate dadbod

Yeah but like a thick square kinda.. Sort of like Spongebob with a bit more muscle

 

[Nogatco Rd]

He's scored 3 goals on 6 shots against Tarasov

His father is Vadim Tarasov who played goalie in Russia from 2002-2013, I wonder if Ovi ever scored on him?

Did Howe ever score on 2 different generations of goalies? Jagr?

 

[BallardEra]

Ovechkin now has 29 goals in his last 46 games going back to last season.

That’s a 52 goal pace over 82 games.

 

[Firsov99]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852831415164936686

Now that would be something. He might as well retire if he reaches 900 this season. It’s hard to imagine that he doesn’t get 900 if he breaks the record.

 

[andrjusha]

35 to go, whatever it takes!

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Yep, he's getting 900 this year.

 

[Firsov99]

By the way, Ovi was a whopping +4 today as well. And only 13:35 of ice time. Adding good pieces to the team during the offseason has helped. But it’s time to give more praise to Carbery. He IS the best signing the Caps have had in a while.

 

[Lucas Hood]

It was very obvious to anyone that spent a lot of time watching him that he had a back injury last season until the All star break that severely hampered his movement, but that didn't stop haters who never consistently watched him from pretending he was healthy and just over the hill old.

Caps retool is looking amazing right now. Its like the perfect storm of their additions working out well together with several of their younger guys looking legit this year. Theyre not even feeding Ovie trying to help him score, the teams just playing hockey.

PLD trade looking like the Jeff Carter to LA trade so far, trade a dysfunctional player (Jack Johnson/Darcy Kuemper) for the a higher profile longer contract dysfunctional player who seamlessly fits in and slots everyone else where they should be. Caps also won all of their games without having Matt Roy on the ice and haven't missed a beat since Chychrun went down as well. That's a top pairing for half the teams in the league

 

[kugelbahn]

Lol no way.

McDavid is untouchable for any previous era star

OV wont pass Mcdavid all time. OV is the GOAT goal scorer. He was at goal 800. Most rockets, longest goal scoring prime and one of best peak seasons.

Him getting 895 won't change his all time ranking from 8-13 range

Not sure about that.
If McD does not win a cup, does not collect any more hardware
(he did not last year and does not look like this year either), remains relatively weak goals scorer (scored more than 44 only once) and loses speed (he is 28 in Jan).
And OV scores 900 with decent last two seasons.
All are in realm of possibility, McD is very much touchable
His trajectory was to #5 for sure before injury woes.

 

[Caser]

His father is Vadim Tarasov who played goalie in Russia from 2002-2013, I wonder if Ovi ever scored on him?

Did Howe ever score on 2 different generations of goalies? Jagr?

Looks like he did in the 2004/05 season... looks like in 2002/03 too.

 

[Fantomas]

I'm really curious to know if Ovy will be motivated to keep going after breaking the record. Maybe he'll still be hungry to play and even try for the 1,000 mark. I think he's out there having fun.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

I'm really curious to know if Ovy will be motivated to keep going after breaking the record. Maybe he'll still be hungry to play and even try for the 1,000 mark. I think he's out there having fun.

1,000 goal mark sounds cool.

Also money lots of money

 

[TheGuiminator]

I knew (and said) before the season started that Ovechkin would have a bounce back season.

I’m sticking with my prediction that he’ll score between 40-45 goals and will likely break Gretzky’s record by the end of this season

I don’t want it to happen, but It’s just inevitable at this point