Alex Ovechkin stats, records: A look at the Capitals star by the numbers after passing Wayne Gretzky

After scoring his 895th goal against the New York Islands on Sunday, Alex Ovechkin is now officially the highest scorer in NHL history. Gretzky’s Ovechkin’s search took 20 years and has accumulated some race numbers that took place along the way.

For a long time, it was considered that the record for all Gretzky’s goals was a bit untouchable. Ovechkin then entered the league and started scoring at a fast pace, publishing 52 goals as a novio in 2005-06. He only did so for two decades.

Ovechkin’s longevity and coherence has been amazing. As a result, he has created some incredible numbers over the years, passing Gretzky in more than one or two areas. Ovechkin has named the power play, in clutch situations and the road.

Becoming the new leader of the NHL’s Objectives was a long trip to Ovechkin, so let’s break down as it came with the help of some interesting numbers from the CBS sports research team.

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We will delve into the way Ovechkin scored his 895 goals, as well as when, where and against who marked.

1,487 games

For years, many and the surroundings of the world of hockey thought that the record of the goals of all Gretzky would hit. Not only did Ovechkin do, he beat Gretzky in the same number of games. Gretzky pointed out 894 goals in 1,487 race games. With the physical toll that hockey takes players, only 1,486 games is a feat of its own, let alone break the record for all time goals.

565 Uniform Force Objectives

Ovecchkin is announced as the greatest game weapon ever (because it is), but we do not reject its 565 career goals. This is just one behind Gordie Howe for the second more in NHL history, but Gretzky still has Ovechkin in this category with 617. Give a couple of years more, and Ovechkin could also be on the top of this list.

325 goals of power play

One of the clearest signs of a great competitor of all time is that their opponents know what is coming and they cannot stop it yet. This has been Ovechkin in the game of power throughout his career. Everyone in the arena knows that the puck goes to the left circle for an Ovechkin patented timer, but no one has ever found out how to stop him. Either, or no one wanted to step on it, including the goalkeepers. Adjustly, the goal that Ovecchkin scored to break the record was the 325th Power Game of his career.

65 empty net goals

There will be a lot on the ovechkin record 65 empty goals. To be clear, this should not be considered this discussion. To begin with, Gretzky played for some of the most prominent seasons in NHL history. If Ovecchkin has a few more empty goals, it is a washing as the goal has improved a lot since Gretzky’s time. In addition, to achieve all these clean opportunities, Ovechkin teams had to win a lot. According to his credit, Ovechkin assured that target no. 895 would not be a clean.

5 Traffic Objectives

If you had given me a surface area of ​​more than five gochkin’s career, I would probably have passed. I am surprised that this goal is even so high because Ovechkin is not exactly known for his defensive capacity. Maybe it should have been more and more ice. Then maybe not. His last Tally Tally was all the way in 2021-22.

2 goals of penalty shot

This total is lower than what he thought he would be, but he is twice the penalty goals Gretzky scored in his career. To think that the two top scorers in the NHL history combined by only three criminal traits are almost difficult to believe.

136 winners of the game

This is another record of Ovechkin, who has just beat in his 894th career goal. Ovechkin as the only possession of the most winning goals of the game has had, passing Jaromir Jagar in the process. This is an area where Ovechkin has an advantage over Gretzky, as it was celebrated in the age of overtime of 3 to 3.This does not make this number less impressive because Ovechkin has managed to play a great game in the great moment and again throughout his career.

32 hat tricks

When Gretzky’s goals came to grapes, both in terms of a unique game and the season, Ovechkin has just been constantly connected throughout his career. Even with his 32 race tricks, Ovechkin is still 18 behind Gretzky for the record of all time in this category. This is only the first of the few numbers that really stand out exactly how Ovechkin has been consisting of his almost 1,500 career games.

65 GOAL season

The largest of the goals that Ovechkin has ever scored in a single season is 65 years. This is only linked by the 24th NHL story, and Gretzky has four seasons above. The two highest punctuation seasons are included, in which “The Great One” reached 92 and 87 goals. Ovechkin has never approached this heights in an 82 -game campaign, but it has not been important because of their durability and reliability. It has never been too long without finding the back of the network.

14 stations of 40 goal

Ovecchkin’s goal inside Gretzky, his 893, also marked the 14th season 40 of his career. Ovecchkin has already maintained the record for 40 goals in the history of the league, but expanded his leadership to Gretzky by adding another. Once again, Ovecchkin is simply automatic. Regardless of his age, you can safely comply with Ovechkin hitting 40 goals year after year.

Drought of 14 games

Speaking of this, Ovechkin has never experienced a drought of more than 14 games, and those did not often happen. In large part in its state as a power game machine, Ovechkin has avoided too many droughts in his career. Gretzky, on the other hand, had a drought of 21 games. Only more tests than Ovechkin is a Russian machine built to score goals.

456 road targets

For any reason, it is perhaps the gentle pillows or the room service, Ovechkin has always loved the score on the road. Its 456 road goals are a record of the NHL. DC fans have seen him many times, but opposing fans have been terrorized near hundreds of times.

57 goals vs. Unique opponent

No opposing fan base has seen Ovechkin pointed out more than Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets fans. When the jets were still the thrashes, they played in the same division as Ovechkin, and simply turned on them. That is why this number is still maintained today, although jets and capitals have not been at the same conference for more than a decade.

In addition, in a fun statistical Quirk, Gretzky scored the majority of his goals against a jet franchise, he is not the same. He scored 79 goals against the original Jets franchise, which moved to Arizona and became the coyotes before moving to Utah for the start of the 2024-25 season.