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Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin continues to etch his title within the NHL historical past books. In Tuesday’s 5-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks, Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s report for many profession highway objectives as he scored his 402nd and 403rd highway objectives.
Ovechkin’s first purpose tied Gretzky’s report of 402 highway objectives and the Capitals captain was in a position to break it together with his second purpose halfway by means of the opening interval. Ovechkin tallied the record-breaking purpose on a one-timer off an help from Dylan Strome.
“It’s all the time good if you beat the Great One,” Ovechkin stated. “It would not matter what sort of milestone it’s. It’s historical past.”
Ovechkin additionally registered the one hundred and sixtieth multi-goal sport of his NHL profession. Only Gretzky has extra multi-goal video games with 189 to his credit score.
In addition, Ovechkin scored the game-opening purpose as he discovered the again of the online simply 5:35 into the competition. It marked Ovechkin’s one hundred and thirty fifth game-opening purpose, which tied him with Jaromir Jagr for probably the most in NHL historical past.
Earlier in November, Ovechkin set the NHL report by scoring probably the most objectives with one staff when he tallied his 787th profession purpose on Nov. 5 towards the Coyotes and handed Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe. Speaking of Howe, Ovechkin can be simply eight objectives away from tying the Red Wings Hall of Famer for the No. 2 spot on the league’s all-times objectives listing with 801 objectives.
Ovechkin at the moment leads the Capitals in factors (23) and objectives (13) in 24 video games this season.
