Alexander Ovechkin!
Against the New York Islanders on Sunday afternoon, Alex Ovechkin passed Wayne Gretzky with his 895 career goal, the most in the history of the game.
The man they call the Great Eight joined the Capitals the age of 20 in 2005 and has stayed in DC ever since. And he has done it all in this game. Ovie has scored 30 or more goals in every season he has been in the league, except for the covid short year of 2021 where he scored 24 goals.
He's had eight season of 50 or more goals, one of which was a 60 goal season. He won the goal scoring title seven times, one league scoring title, a Calder, a Hart, and a Stanley Cup. There's just more to it than that with Ovechkin. Oh yeah, and Ovechkin has more power play goals (324) and game winning goals (136) than anybody else in history. And those numbers will continue to grow the more he plays.
Ovechkin doesn't look like he's slowing down. That man has a nose for the net that few men in the history of this game have. He has a rocket of a shot, and has the bull in a China shop mentality. He will run you over to get to a puck and then get to the net. Not in the same way as like a Cam Neely or a Wendall Clark, but he has no problem throwing his weight around. He's a goal scorer more than a power forward.
Ovie also has so many different ways to beat you. Wrist shot, backhand, slapper, deke, he can do it all to beat a goaltender. Hell he'd shoot it right through a goalie if he could in order to be able to put the pick in the back of the net. He can do it so many different ways and raise the game of those playing around him.
Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin, the new goal scoring king in the National Hockey League!
