Ovechkin Milestone Thread - Countdown to 894 (Continued)

[AD1066]

The insane thing to me is in his first 14 seasons, he only missed 30 games.
I repeat. He missed 30 games in 14 seasons and for the reckless abandon he played with early on, it's even more impressive.

He's earned the record, I get he's getting a lot of ENG but add up Wayne's as well, I'm sure he fed off them big time too.
Happy to see this record broken, the guy will score 895 just as if it was his first goal scored.

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Looks like only 17 of the 32 in that timeframe were due to injury.

Games Alex Ovechkin Has Missed - Capitals Outsider

Updated: 12/23/2024 Alex Ovechkin has missed 75 games in his career. The Caps are 36-34-5 in those games. Interesting info about the games he missed: 51

capitalsoutsider.com

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[Devil Dancer]

Am I the only asshole irritated that people can't seem to agree on whether the community should be counting down to tying or passing the record? (e.g., some counts are at 16, others at 15, this AM.)

I don't have a preference, but pick one. How hard is this?

I was at Camden Yards for 2130. It was cool, but I'd have traded it for 2131 in a heartbeat.

So we're a 895 household.

 

[Midnight Judges]

All the signs were starting to point to Ovechkin breaking Gretzky's goal record by 2013.

That simply isn't how goal scoring curves generally work.

Ovie's sustained goalscoring is freakish - on the extreme end of unusual.

Predicting this in 2013 - as if it was greater than a 50% chance - is just a failed analysis that turned out right for all the wrong reasons.

There are people who have posted typical elite goal scoring curves and then best case goalscoring curves. Predicting this in 2013 puts you in the extreme end of optimistic.

You mention Selanne as proof that this was increasingly possible. Problem is, Selanne wasn't unprecedented and does not represent some sort of generational shift. Gordie Howe did it in the 60s and early 70s. Johnny Bucyk did it in the late 70s. I don't think that one example really tells you much about the league so much as it tells you about Teemu Selanne being a freak athlete.