Ovechkin Milestone Thread - Countdown to 894

[M2Beezy]

Man I love this player

 

[eojsmada]

Man I love this player

Does that break Kenzie Lalonde's Ottawa win streak?

 

[Kalopsia]

Kari Lehtonen is still 3rd on that list despite being out of the league for 7 years and out of the Eastern Conference for 16 years. Almost all of those goals would've had to come in Ovie's first 4 seasons. Really shows how much he dominated Atlanta at the start of his career.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

I don’t have the words for this man. 874 is just 20 away from 894, yet he’s still breaking all sorts of records every night.

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Does that break Kenzie Lalonde's Ottawa win streak?

I think it got broken a few weeks ago, her "shtick" was that the Senators won 3-0 or something and they failed to repeat on that. Hopefully she can find solace in mainstream media, where expectations are low and praise is high.

Sadly, good work for Ovi tonight. At least we got a point.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

He will break the record this season. Likely sometime in late March. He will get at least a couple hat tricks to speed it up.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Man I love this player

sounds like there’s a shitload of Caps fans in Ottawa, who knew

 

[Zuluss]

For the past two years, I was thinking that Jagr's GWG record would be even harder for OV to beat than Gretzky's goal record.

And there you go, the old man has as many GWG in 29 games this season as he had in 79 games last season, and the GWG record is right in his cross-hairs.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

The GWG tonight was such a beauty. Puck was on edge, and he still managed to go top corner off a knuckler. Tremendous skill.

 

[eojsmada]

He will break the record this season. Likely sometime in late March. He will get at least a couple hat tricks to speed it up.

If he does it on March 23rd it will be pure symmetry, since that was the day that Gretzky broke Howe's record in 1994.

If he does it on March 23rd it will be pure symmetry, since that was the day that Gretzky broke Howe's record in 1994.

Sadly, they don't play that day. Boooo

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

If he does it on March 23rd it will be pure symmetry, since that was the day that Gretzky broke Howe's record in 1994.


Sadly, they don't play that day. Boooo

There is symmetry actually!

1963: Gordie Howe breaks Maurice Richard’s all-time goal scoring record.

1994 (31 years later): Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s all-time goal scoring record.

2025 (31 years later): If all goes well, Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record.

If the 31 year cycle continues, this record would be broken again in 2056!

 

[SherVaughn30]

Is there any other player in history to say they scored on Brodeur, Belfour, Hasek, Osgood, Luongo, Fleury, Lundqvist, Quick, and Hellebuyck?! He didn't score on Roy as he missed him by 2 years.

 

[BallardEra]

44 goals in his last 65 games.

21 goals to go with 37 games left.

 

[Randyne]

Kari Lehtonen is still 3rd on that list despite being out of the league for 7 years and out of the Eastern Conference for 16 years. Almost all of those goals would've had to come in Ovie's first 4 seasons. Really shows how much he dominated Atlanta at the start of his career.

Thrashers wasn't his easiest opponent. If he played in Western Central, Ovi would beat the record long ago:

 

[Nogatco Rd]

There is symmetry actually!

1963: Gordie Howe breaks Maurice Richard’s all-time goal scoring record.

1994 (31 years later): Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s all-time goal scoring record.

2025 (31 years later): If all goes well, Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record.

If the 31 year cycle continues, this record would be broken again in 2056!

pretty sure the Mayans predicted this

 

[Demandedace]

Trashers wasn't his easiest opponent. If he played in Western Central, Ovi would beat the record long ago:
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Those numbers are all absurd haha prime/peak Ovi was truly something else

 

[Kcoyote3]

There is symmetry actually!

1963: Gordie Howe breaks Maurice Richard’s all-time goal scoring record.

1994 (31 years later): Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s all-time goal scoring record.

2025 (31 years later): If all goes well, Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record.

If the 31 year cycle continues, this record would be broken again in 2056!

I think if you have a record broken once a generation by a player then that player is a generational player.

 

[Fallschirmyager]

There is symmetry actually!

1963: Gordie Howe breaks Maurice Richard’s all-time goal scoring record.

1994 (31 years later): Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s all-time goal scoring record.

2025 (31 years later): If all goes well, Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record.

If the 31 year cycle continues, this record would be broken again in 2056!

Which means the player to keep the cycle is still at least a decade away from joining the league.

 

[TJHKY]

 

[ricky0034]

that's kinda cute that he gave the empty nets he's scored on names

 

[Caps8112]

Kari Lehtonen is still 3rd on that list despite being out of the league for 7 years and out of the Eastern Conference for 16 years. Almost all of those goals would've had to come in Ovie's first 4 seasons. Really shows how much he dominated Atlanta at the start of his career.

Dubnyk seems high on the list for the teams he was on.

 

[andrjusha]

Love these types of OV goals, multiple in one.
Padded all-time leads in clutch goals:
First goal of the game
Go ahead goal
GWG
Overtime goal
Road goal
Road ES goal

And nobody complains on these

 

[Chelis Chili]

OVECHKIN TALLIES OT GOAL ON MERILAINEN TO PASS JAGR, INCH CLOSER TO GRETZKY
Alex Ovechkin tallied for the first time against Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen and needs 21 goals to complete The Gr8 Chase and pass Wayne Gretzky (894) for the most in NHL history. Ovechkin’s League-record 27th career overtime goal as well as his 134th game winner helped the Capitals (30-10-5, 65 points) reach the 30-win mark and maintain their hold on first place in the NHL.

* Ovechkin (21-12—33 in 29 GP) owns a goals-per-game rate of 0.72 this season, which puts him on pace to pass Gretzky against Carolina at Lenovo Center on April 2. Ovechkin (874-709—1,583 in 1,455 GP) owns as career average of 0.60 and that rate has him tracking to break the record versus Columbus at Capital One Arena on April 13.

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