Whom You Know: #NHLPeachy Alex Ovechkin: The Road to 700 Goals (10th Place)

Monday, January 27, 2020

#NHLPeachy Alex Ovechkin: The Road to 700 Goals (10th Place)

OVECHKIN PASSES LEMIEUX, NOW EIGHT GOALS SHY OF 700

Alex Ovechkin scored his second hat trick in as many games and tallied his third straight multi-goal outing – a first in his NHL career – to record the 690th, 691st and 692nd regular-season goals of his NHL career. That propelled Ovechkin ahead of Mario Lemieux (690) and into a tie with Steve Yzerman (692) for ninth place on the NHL’s all-time goals list.

* The Capitals captain has scored hat tricks in consecutive games for the third time in his career, with each instance coming since his 32nd birthday (also Oct. 5-7, 2017 and Dec. 11-14, 2018).

* Ovechkin (34 years, 123 days) is one of three players in NHL history – and just the second in the past 98 years – to record consecutive hat tricks three times in his career. He joins Wayne Gretzky (3x), the NHL’s all-time goals leader with 894, and Joe Malone (4x), widely known as one of the first pure goal-scorers in League history. Both Malone (31 years, 327 days) Gretzky (23 years, 28 days) recorded their last such instances at a younger age than Ovechkin.

* Ovechkin sits eight goals shy of becoming the eighth member of the NHL’s 700-goal club. He will need to overtake two more Hall of Fame members on his way to the illustrious group.

* Ovechkin is on pace to go from 600 to 700 goals in only 157 games, which would mark the fewest games to make that leap for any member of the 700-goal club. It also would be the second-fewest games to get from one 100-goal milestone to another in his career.

* The fewest contests Ovechkin has needed to score any collection of 100 goals is 126 games – after tallying his 124th career goal Dec. 27, 2007, he netted his 224th goal Oct. 6, 2009.

* With multiple goals in three straight games and hat tricks in each of his last two, Ovechkin now is on track to reach the 700-goal mark in only 1,146 career games – which would be the second-fastest in League history. Wayne Gretzky (886 GP) and Brett Hull (1,157 GP) are the only players to hit the milestone in fewer than 1,200 games.

* Ovechkin has averaged 0.61 goals-per-game to this point in his career – to rank fifth in NHL history (min. 300 GP) – including a League-best 0.58 rate since celebrating his 30th birthday on Sept. 17, 2015. Among players in the 700-goal club, only two scored at a rate of 0.50 G/GP or higher from age 30 onward.

By the Numbers: Alex Ovechkin’s Road to 700 NHL Goals

A look at some of the numbers behind the highest-scoring left wing and Russian in NHL history:

5,458

Shots on goal by Alex Ovechkin to date; only Ray Bourque (6,209) and Jaromir Jagr (5,637) have more since the League began tracking in 1959-60.

5,219

Days from his first NHL goal (Oct. 5, 2005) to his 685th NHL goal (Jan. 18, 2020).

430

Even-strength goals by Alex Ovechkin, 11th-most in NHL history.

258

Power-play goals by Alex Ovechkin to date; only Dave Andreychuk (274) and Brett Hull (265) have more since the League began tracking in 1933-34.

258

Assists by Nicklas Backstrom on regular-season goals by Alex Ovechkin. Only three players in NHL history have set up a teammate more: Wayne Gretzky (364; Jari Kurri), Bryan Trottier (310; Mike Bossy) and Henrik Sedin (280; Daniel Sedin).

238

Go-ahead goals by Alex Ovechkin, the third-most in NHL history behind Brett Hull (264) and Jarome Iginla (262).

Tiebreaking goals by Alex Ovechkin that have stood as the game-winner; tied with Jaromir Jagr (75) for the most such goals in NHL history.

280

The fewest games played required for any 200-goal span of Alex Ovechkin’s career – he scored career goals 61 to 261 from Nov. 6, 2006 to Feb. 7, 2010. Once Ovechkin passes Mark Messier (694) with goal 695, he will need 200 goals to overtake Wayne Gretzky (894).

217

Times Alex Ovechkin has scored Washington’s first goal of a game, the fifth-most such goals in NHL history (he has given the Capitals a 1-0 lead 119 times).

140

Different goaltenders Alex Ovechkin has scored against during the regular season.

124

Tying goals by Alex Ovechkin, the third-most by a player at the time of his 692nd career goal behind Dave Andreychuk (137) and Joe Sakic (132).

109

Game-winning goals by Alex Ovechkin, tied for sixth place in NHL history.

Different players to record an assist on an Alex Ovechkin goal during the regular season (Top 3: Nicklas Backstrom: 258; John Carlson: 110; Mike Green: 70).

Goals by Alex Ovechkin against the Lightning, his highest total against one franchise during the regular season (Top 5: TBL: 48, WPG/ATL: 47, CAR: 43, TOR: 41, NYI: 39; FLA: 39).

Age, in years, of Wayne Gretzky when he scored his 700th regular-season goal. He is the only player to reach the milestone before age 36.

Overtime goals by Alex Ovechkin during the regular season, the most in NHL history.

Most regular-season games against a goalie versus whom he has never scored a goal (0 G in 7 GP vs. Mike Condon and Mathieu Garon).

Career regular-season goals scored by Alex Ovechkin against Pascal Leclaire – the goaltender against whom he scored his first NHL goal.

Shorthanded goals scored by Alex Ovechkin, with his last coming more than 11 years ago against the New York Rangers (Jan. 3, 2009).

0.94

Alex Ovechkin’s career goals-per-game against the Wild, his best against one franchise.

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