WASHINGTON — The Capitals mentioned Thursday that no determination has been made on Alex Ovechkin’s future within the NHL after an e-mail was despatched to season-ticket holders calling subsequent season his final.
The staff on social media mentioned that the e-mail was mistakenly despatched by somebody within the company gross sales division.
Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s profession goal-scoring report this spring and now has a complete of 897. The upcoming 2025-26 season is his final on his present contract, signed in 2021, and he turns 40 in September.
He has mentioned he intends to play subsequent season, which might be his twenty first within the league.
Ovechkin is coming off a whirlwind season wherein he overcame a damaged leg to attain 44 targets — the third most within the league — and move Gretzky’s profession mark of 894 that lengthy appeared unapproachable.
Ovechkin led the staff with 5 targets in 10 video games this postseason however had only one aim within the second spherical as he and the staff fell wanting the Jap Convention finals for the fifteenth time in 16 appearances throughout his profession. The opposite time was their Stanley Cup run in 2018, when Ovechkin gained the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
