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Wayne Gretzky attends Capitals game in Toronto to watch Alex Ovechkin, joins Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin in broadcast booth

The Washington Capitals flew up to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs on Sunday. In attendance for the matchup was some serious hockey royalty.

Wayne Gretzky made his presence known when he jumped into the TV broadcast booth with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin. The Great One chatted with Joe B and Locker at the end of the first period.

Gretzky said he was in the building to watch the man who is trying to track down his all-time goals record, Caps captain Alex Ovechkin.

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Alex Ovechkin scores 812th career goal on Wayne Gretzky’s birthday

Alex Ovechkin got Wayne Gretzky “a gift” on The Great One’s 62nd birthday.

Set up in his office, Ovechkin scored his 32nd goal of the season and his tenth PPG of the year.

The goal was Ovechkin’s 812th career goal.

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NHL posts hype video for Alex Ovechkin’s chase of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record

After passing Gordie Howe last week, Alex Ovechkin is the NHL’s second-greatest goal-scorer. The Great Eight leaped past the legendary Howe against the Winnipeg Jets on December 23 with a two-goal effort.

Now, the only man that stands in his way at the top of the mountain is Wayne Gretzky. If that sentence alone doesn’t get you pumped up, the NHL released a video hyping up Ovi’s chase of The Great One that most certainly will.

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Alex Ovechkin wants to break Wayne Gretzky’s goals record the right way. Not as a ‘third-line guy playing 8-10 minutes a game.’

Alex Ovechkin signed a five-year contract extension in the summer of 2021, but according to Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis, there were conditions and understandings that weren’t technically written in the deal.

While speaking to ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski at the NHL’s Board meeting, Leonsis said that the Capitals would not rebuild the team this season or in the three that follows as Ovechkin chases Wayne Gretzky’s goals record of 894.

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By Ian Oland 2 months ago

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Alex Ovechkin now sits 99 goals away from Gretzky. Some dirty math shows how realistic the goals record is becoming.

I’m no mathematician, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. But because my son Ethan has been asking me for help on his math homework, I am feeling cocky about my skills. So now I want to tackle the behemoth question of just how realistic the goals record is at this point in time for Alex Ovechkin.

Let’s do some arithmetic.

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By Ian Oland 2 months ago

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Connor McDavid recognizes Alex Ovechkin’s remarkable consistency as Ovi nears ‘pretty amazing feat’

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is just eight goals shy of passing the legendary Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list. After Howe, only Edmonton Oilers legend Gretzky at 894 career goals stands in his way.

With the Caps in Edmonton on Monday, current Oilers legend in the making Connor McDavid was asked about Ovechkin’s record-breaking ways. The 25-year-old phenom was very complimentary.

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By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago

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Alex Ovechkin on breaking Wayne Gretzky’s road goals record: ‘It’s always nice when you beat The Great One’

Alex Ovechkin is at a point in his career where whenever he scores a goal or tallies a point, he is guaranteed to accomplish a bit of history and move up in the NHL’s record books.

Tuesday against Bruce Boudreau’s Vancouver Canucks, Ovechkin went big and eclipsed Wayne Gretzky. Ovi passed Gretz in career road tallies, becoming the NHL’s Road Goals King. The Capitals gave Ovechkin a standing ovation inside the locker room after the game.

“It’s always nice when you beat The Great One,” Ovechkin said. “It doesn’t matter what kind of milestone it is. It’s history.”

Gretzky scored 402 goals in away barns, accounting for 45 percent of his 894 career tallies. Meanwhile, after scoring road goals numbers 402 and 403 in the ‘Couv, Ovi has collected 50.3 percent of his 793 career lamplighters away from Capital One Arena.

Scoring on the road should be more difficult. Home teams get the last change, meaning a superstar like Ovechkin will consistently face an opposing team’s toughest defenders and line matchups. Yet, it’s been easier for Ovi to score on the road, not harder.

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By Ian Oland 2 months ago

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Capitals give Alex Ovechkin standing ovation inside locker room after breaking Wayne Gretzky’s road goals record

Late on the east coast when most of us were sleeping, the Washington Capitals posted a video from inside the locker room at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.

The Capitals met as a team to hand out their post-game yellow rope award. Head coach Peter Laviolette also went through a list of accomplishments that happened during the Capitals’ 5-1 victory.

The biggest milestone, of course, was that Alex Ovechkin scored his 402nd and 403rd road goals, tying and then breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record. Ovechkin scored twice, nine minutes apart in the first period, to break the record.

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By Ian Oland 2 months ago

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Alex Ovechkin scores 402nd and 403rd career road goals, passing Wayne Gretzky for most all time

Alex Ovechkin just overtook Wayne Gretzky on a nuanced, but impressive goals record.

Ovechkin scored twice in the first period against the Vancouver Canucks.

The goals were Ovi’s 402nd and 403rd road goals of his career, tying and then leap-frogging The Great One.

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By Ian Oland 2 months ago

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Evgeny Kuznetsov jokes that Wayne Gretzky will pay Alex Ovechkin’s opponents so all-time goals record is not broken

Alex Ovechkin scored his ninth goal of the 2022-23 season on Thursday, giving him 789 career goals. That leaves The Great Eight just 106 goals from overtaking Wayne Gretzky for the all-time lead.

Evgeny Kuznetsov has ridden shotgun with Ovi for a lot of those goals over the past five or so seasons. Kuzy sat down with former Caps forward Andrei Nikolishin, during a “Slippery Ice” interview, to talk about Ovechkin’s chase of Gretzky.

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By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago

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