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Quote from: xhomerx10 on April 06, 2025, 11:16:16 PM

Alex Ovechkin is the NHL's new top goal scorer.
On April 6, Ovechkin scored goal #895 to pass Wayne Gretzky as the highest-scoring player in NHL history.

The amazing stat was that he equaled Wayne in almost exactly the same game numbers.
Minus one game out of more than 1500...both took 20 years to do it.

I wonder how much he will be able to extend the record and how many more years he might play...he still have a contract next year (only one year left), but I can envision Leonsis to try to renegotiate...maybe offering a bit less per year, but a 3 year extension, for example, instead of just one year...or something like this.

This year is probably the last one Ovi can bang out more than 40 goals (42 currently), but I digress.
Almost no one expected him to score 42 goals and counting this season when he did "only" 31 last year.

The one thing that I never liked about Ovi's stats, are his total number of shots (not just "shots on goal") are rarely appropriately reported. I wish I could find the chart, it came out probably 7 years ago, but he was not better than any other "good" player on his goals/shot percentage. He was essentially sitting directly on the trend line. Sure, you scored 10x more goals than anyone else on the team (maybe an exaggeration, idk i made that stat up), but you also took 10x as many shots. So... congrats?

It is an impressive feat, don't get me wrong. The most consistent, moderately good shooter in history!

or was he good enough to get a ton of shots off?