“Eight is a good number,” Alex Ovechkin said on January 31 after passing Mark Messier for eighth on the NHL’s all-time goals list.
Thursday night in Colorado, Ovechkin will have another chance to become the eighth player in NHL history to hit the 700-goal milestone if he can score twice.
The game is NHL game number 888 of the season.
#Caps vs Avs is NHL game #888 That is all. https://t.co/iam7anZyYu
— Sergey Kocharov (@SergeyKocharov) February 12, 2020
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