WASHINGTON — The NHL now has a 900-goal membership.
Constitution member: Alex Ovechkin, in fact.
The Washington star pushed his report complete to a brand new stage on Wednesday evening, scoring towards the St. Louis Blues to achieve 900. The milestone got here 2:39 into the second interval.
Ovechkin was lurking within the offensive zone and was on the backside of the fitting circle when he backhanded Jakob Chychrun’s rebound previous a sliding Jordan Binnington, who wasn’t in a position to recuperate in time. The bench cleared to have fun the 40-year-old’s accomplishment.
After breaking Wayne Gretzky’s profession report together with his 895th aim in April, Ovechkin entered this season needing three extra to achieve 900. After 4 video games with out one, the 40-year-old Russian ended that drought within the third interval towards Minnesota on Oct. 17.
Every week later, he scored No. 899 towards Columbus.
“It is insane to consider 4, 5, six years in the past,” longtime teammate T.J. Oshie mentioned final week. “Anybody that claims, ‘Can Ovi do that?’ I am like, ‘Yeah, in all probability.'”
Ovechkin is within the remaining season of his contract, and it is a great distance from right here to 1,000, so this may very well be the ultimate round-number goal-scoring milestone for the star ahead, who has gained three MVPs and led the league in objectives 9 occasions.
“Even with the sluggish begin right here, if somebody asks me if he will rating 30 this 12 months, I would say, ‘Sure, assured,'” mentioned Oshie, who retired in June. “He simply finds a option to show folks flawed each time folks suppose that he is down and out. … There’s been loads of time for me to come back to phrases with not placing limits on the large man.”
Ovechkin has been remarkably constant by way of his profession, not often lacking vital time due to harm. Because of this, his milestones have been fairly evenly spaced, though it did take slightly longer to go from 800 to 900.
Purpose No. 100: Oct. 12, 2007 (recreation 167)
Purpose No. 200: Feb. 5, 2009 (recreation 296)
Purpose No. 300: April 5, 2011 (recreation 473)
Purpose No. 400: Dec. 20, 2013 (recreation 634)
Purpose No. 500: Jan. 10, 2016 (recreation 801)
Purpose No. 600: March 12, 2018 (recreation 990)
Purpose No. 700: Feb. 22, 2020 (recreation 1,144)
Purpose No. 800: Dec. 13, 2022 (recreation 1,305)
Purpose No. 900: Nov. 5, 2025 (recreation 1,504)