Ovechkin Milestone Thread - Countdown to 894

[Luigi Lemieux]

Yikes hoping it's nothing serious. He was putting together a special season. Like seeing the old guys playing well.

 

[authentic]

Yikes hoping it's nothing serious. He was putting together a special season. Like seeing the old guys playing well.

Yeah especially considering he never gets hurt either, but yeah I would bet that it’s not.

 

[Firsov99]

Oh……my…….G……

I don’t even know ……..


Uhhh. They’ve spent that almost 15m already man. Their contracts are not relevant.

Come on…..

Please help me underhand then. I am using the following tool:

2025-26 Washington Capitals Cap Table

The Washington Capitals 2025-26 salary cap table, including salary cap table, including team cap space, player cap hits, incentives, & bonus info.

www.spotrac.com

This is for next season where 13 players, the core with the biggest contracts, is already locked in. So, are saying that the available cap space for next season has already been spent? But on whom?

 

[Susannah]

The suburbs are lovely, with 7 of the 10 richest counties in the nation. Crime is low in the city as well. Other than traffic, what’s not to like?

Sounds like you’ve spent little to no time here.

To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "no wonder nobody wants to live here. It is too crowded."

 

[895]

Please help me underhand then. I am using the following tool:

2025-26 Washington Capitals Cap Table

The Washington Capitals 2025-26 salary cap table, including salary cap table, including team cap space, player cap hits, incentives, & bonus info.

www.spotrac.com

This is for next season where 13 players, the core with the biggest contracts, is already locked in. So, are saying that the available cap space for next season has already been spent? But on whom?

Caps are already using Oshie and Backstroms money. They are on LTIR.

Mangiapane is making 5.5m this year and probably can’t be re-signed because we need his money to give to Chychrun and whichever goalie wins the no.1 spot.

It’s going to be mostly the same team next year with a few young guys like Leonard replacing Mangiapane and some other minor changes. That is unless Chychrun priced himself out then there will be bigger changes.

 

[Auston Marlander]

Ovi is the only player to score on 34 franchises, wild.

 

[Firsov99]

Caps are already using Oshie and Backstroms money. They are on LTIR.

Mangiapane is making 5.5m this year and probably can’t be re-signed because we need his money to give to Chychrun and whichever goalie wins the no.1 spot.

It’s going to be mostly the same team next year with a few young guys like Leonard replacing Mangiapane and some other minor changes. That is unless Chychrun priced himself out then there will be bigger changes.

Thanks for clarifying. It would have been nice to keep Chychrun.

 

[Dicky113]

That would really suck if he has an MCL tear; could be really tough to come back from at his age.

 

[ReimanSum1908]

That would really suck if he has an MCL tear; could be really tough to come back from at his age.

A curse on you for even suggesting the possibility, jinxing us all: may your camels never bear young.

I can only hope he's back; nothing this season would thrill me more than if he maintained this clip and actually, beyond all reason or probability, took home another Rocket.

 

[kanucks25]

It would really suck for the sport if this was serious; what an awesome story he and the Caps have been so far this season.

 

[Nsjohnson]

This is the worst news I could have woke up to. Favorite player playing out of his mind, some idiot hits his leg from the side. That's definitely an MCL issue. The question is it sprained or torn.

 

[Voight]

Hope the injury isn't serious.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Hopefully he's okay and not on the shelf long term. Tom Wilson made McBain pay the price after.

 

[Toby91ca]

This is the worst news I could have woke up to. Favorite player playing out of his mind, some idiot hits his leg from the side. That's definitely an MCL issue. The question is it sprained or torn.

I don't suspect it's that bad....the contact looked like absolutely nothing at all....but you never know. The other good sign was that he pushed his entire weight up off the ice with that injured leg....obviously in discomfort in doing so and it gave out a bit, but if it's something serious, you'd expect that he can't even put any weight on it.

I'm guessing he left the game to avoid any further damage and assess, but won't be a big deal.

 

[Chelis Chili]

OVECHKIN CONTINUES TORRID SCORING PACE WITH ANOTHER MULTI-GOAL OUTING
‘The Gr8 Chase’ took over the NHL schedule for the second time in as many nights after Alex Ovechkin (2-0—2) once again scored multiple goals and moved within 26 of tying Wayne Gretzky for the most in League history. Gretzky required fewer games than Ovechkin to reach every significant goal milestone to date, but the Capitals captain needs to score 26 times within his next 42 games – a feat he has accomplished at least once in 15 of his previous 19 career seasons to date – to reach No. 894 in one fewer outing than the Great One.

* Ovechkin, who became the first player in NHL history with 100 career multi-goal games on the road, scored multiple goals in consecutive days for the fifth time in his career to tie Dino Ciccarelli, Mario Lemieux, Jari Kurri and Maurice Richard for the second most in NHL history. Wayne Gretzky (6x) is the only skater with more.

* The Capitals captain has an NHL-leading 15 goals in 18 games in 2024-25 and his current goals-per-game rate of 0.83 is the highest in a single season in NHL history by a player age 39 or older (age based at start of season), ahead of Gordie Howe (44 in 76 GP; 0.58 G/GP in 1968-69). He also became the oldest player in League history to be the first to 15 goals in a single campaign and did so roughly five years older than Frank Mahovlich in 1971-72 (33 years, 304 days on Nov. 10, 1971).

* Ovechkin’s fifth tally in two games marked his fifth consecutive regulation period with a goal – the second-longest stretch of his career (6 periods from Dec. 11-14, 2018). Only seven other players in NHL history have also had multiple stretches of five or more periods: Joe Malone (5x), Gretzky (3x), Kurri (2x), Teemu Selanne (2x), Mike Bossy (2x), Babe Dye (2x) and Odie Cleghorn (2x).

NEW OPPONENT, SAME RESULTS FOR OVECHKIN
Just 24 hours removed from a hat trick against the Golden Knights, Alex Ovechkin followed up the performance with two more goals against Utah to join Evgeni Malkin and Eric Lindros as the third player in NHL history to score in their first game against 18 different clubs.

* The Capitals captain is no stranger to scoring multiple goals in his first meeting against a franchise and accomplished the feat for the sixth time (UTA, CBJ, FLA, TOR, ANA & PHX), tied with Joe Nieuwendyk (6) for the second most in NHL history; one behind Luc Robitaille (7). Overall, he joined Sidney Crosby (30) as the second player in NHL history with a multi-goal game against 30 different franchises.

* Ovechkin put a puck past Connor Ingram for the first time in his career and notched his 132nd career game-winning goal – three back of Jaromir Jagr’s NHL record – as Utah became the 28th different franchise he has scored a winner against. The only players with a game-winning goal against more franchises are Patrick Marleau (30), Jeff Carter (30), Nathan MacKinnon (30), Brendan Shanahan (29), Mats Sundin (29), Malkin (29), Sebastian Aho (29) and Kyle Palmieri (29).

Sauce: https://media.nhl.com/public/news/18407

 

[Bombshell11]

No one is talking about this but he's very close to be the first in NHL history to break the 7000 shot on goal mark. He's currently at 6,690.

Bourque 6,209
Jagr 5,637
Dionne 5,363
Esposito 5,166

 

[NJDevilsFan21]

I really hope OV can stay healthy. With only 26 to go it's just a matter of time. Even in the worst-case scenario, I feel like he could pretty easily put up another 26 at the age of 40. With the start he's had this season my mindset switched from, will he set the record to, just how far will be get? 900, 908, 925, 950... 1000?! Though I do think he lets off the gas heavily once he gets to 895, and some residual effort will push him beyond 900, but you never know!

 

[LevelingSolo]

Need an update so bad

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

What's Gretzky's career shooting pourcentage? Back when you score a goal from the blueline on a zone entry .
I'm suprised he's not on here?

 

[Royale With Cheese]

As Gretzky once said, you miss 87.9% of the shots you do take.

 

[benfranklin]

Pretty cool one. No one is even close.

 

[User9992]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858732371786559653

I really hope OV can stay healthy. With only 26 to go it's just a matter of time. Even in the worst-case scenario, I feel like he could pretty easily put up another 26 at the age of 40. With the start he's had this season my mindset switched from, will he set the record to, just how far will be get? 900, 908, 925, 950... 1000?! Though I do think he lets off the gas heavily once he gets to 895, and some residual effort will push him beyond 900, but you never know!

Pity he got injured when he has been on fire with 15 goals in 18 games this season.

 

[canary]

What's Gretzky's career shooting pourcentage? Back when you score a goal from the blueline on a zone entry .
I'm suprised he's not on here?

17.6%
OV @ 13.0%
Gretzky is only second to Lemieux (19.0%) in SH% for the 100-highest SOGers of all time.
Out of 200, Mike Bossy leads with 21.2%.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[John Price]

out several weeks, f***