Alex Ovechkin is already the NHL’s all-time main goal-scorer, however he nonetheless retains discovering methods to achieve new private milestones for the Washington Capitals. He did it once more on Sunday evening towards the Nashville Predators.
One other 20-goal season for Alex Ovechkin
Ovechkin opened the scoring for the Capitals of their 3-2 loss to the Predators, giving him his twentieth objective of the season.
That makes it the twenty first consecutive 20-goal season for Ovechkin in his profession, moving him closer to tying Hockey Corridor of Famer Gordie Howe for essentially the most 20-goal seasons in league historical past.
Howe scored 20 targets 22 occasions, however did it over 26 seasons within the NHL.
Ovechkin has by no means scored lower than 20 targets in his profession, and has failed to achieve 30 targets only one time in his profession, and that was in the course of the COVID-shortened, 56-game season again in 2020-21.
Here’s a have a look at his twentieth objective of the season on Sunday. It got here from the spot on the ice the place so a lot of his 917 regular-season targets have come from.
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