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Alex Ovechkin came into this game tied with Wayne Gretzky for the all time goal record. And in a matinee matchup between the Washington Capitals & The New York Islanders, the entire hockey world was watching.
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Weekly recap will be dropping tomorrow!
Special day today with Ovi making history. But recap will include all of this Sunday games as well!
We witnessed History! We lived through this history! We will remember this historical moment. And maybe a small handfull of us will be around to witness it again.
Cause next generations of hockey players/fans deserve to experience this as well.
Go Leafs..!
Gordie Howe scored scored 975 goals. Period.
I'm just happy the several months of constant bombarded of countless "GR8 chase" articles whenever I go to a hockey website will be ending.
Great stuff 👌👏🏻 as a Penguins fan and a Brit I’d like to see Ovi get 1000.
Mad that even when I was growing up all I heard about was all these un breakable Gretzky records and now a few are going.
I'm not ashamed to admit I bawled my eyes out for about 5 minutes straight.
Draisaitl or Matthews will take that record eventually.
Lindstrom has 30% of those goals assists
The fact that he can still score from his office seemingly on command at his age is incredible.
HYPER SENSATIONALISM WHO CARES!!
This is an inedible accomplishment and the NHL did a stellar ob hyping this event, long burn.
But why is there so little talk about the real Grail record? Goals in a season is the best goal scorer of all time if you ask me.
And why do many (not all) people call this great Ovi goal a one timer? It ain't even.
Congrats Ovechkin
Ovi's "worst statistical season of his career" at 31g 34a is still better than majority of NHL players in their prime 🤣. 🐐🐂
Wayne Gretzky had way more assists and I had to make a rule for him to not score. Not like Ovechkin has 48 percent of his goals in his career for a empty net or a power-play. He’s a puck hog
1963 Assist for Wayne Gretzky Angwin Gretzkys assist record will never get broken
Alot of goals scored from the same spot,cant believe it.
Could you imagine Crosby and Ovi on the same team? Whew!
I love Ovi….however this whole thing was staged. Every game I saw on him this year, he could barely make it up, the ice without wheezing. I saw the opposing teams defense chat with him…give him nods, ..leave him open.
He could have done it one his own….
25% are PP and empty net goals right? Wild..
He supports Putin’s slaughter of innocent Ukrainian women and children. Even though he has enriched himself beyond comprehension in the USA, he still supports enslavement of the Baltic States and Putin’s dream of slaughtering any former Soviet Republic that desires independence. If you score enough goals, we will ignore your complete support of genocide.
Daily Recaps? Holy shit I‘m even more excited now
Simply history
Sad that he is RU dictator Putin and RU propoganda supporter… 🙁
39, broke his leg and was out for two months, and still hits 40 goals. This man is a legend.
It’s crazy to think about how Gretzky would’ve still had the overall points record without even scoring a single goal.
Debiloid
Chemo putinskoe
I love your channel and gosh you are the best hockey channel I follow. And I hate this attitude of no politics on the Sport. But am very sorry in this time and age, and as things stand with the US attacking Canada, and the constant Hypocrisy in Sports… we crucify people like Pete Rose or Colin Kapernick… but we blow Oveckin??? A Putin supporter, from Gretzky who has become a Trump supporter??? While Oveckin is rather political in his celebration mentioning this is what Russians have done and can achieve while they slaughter Ukranians? This is how we keep the highest standards for the sport we love??? A shameful episode on the sport we love. Listen carefully… this will not age well. As we demand higher standard from us and Hockey… why don't we do the same of the people who represent this sport? Screw Oveckin… sad day in Hockey when we celebrate people like him.
This analysis is a thesis on why Carbs deserves the Jack Adams this year. With the team being retooled, he has them running so well and has Ovie producing like a monster again because of it. 16 games missed with a broken leg this year, 42 goals, at 39 years old. Insanity. I've been so thankful as a lifelong Caps fan to be an Ovie fan as well.
I'm glad i saw this live and im happy for ovi
Its crazy that he's still such an effective goal scorer at 67 years old.
❤❤❤
Ovi will go down as one of the greatest hockey players and greatest Russian of all time.
My son will in 30 years lol
Was eine Legende! Auch wenn ich die NHL selten verfolge hab ich so sehr gehofft, dass er es schafft. Krass ist, dass er den Rekord ja noch ausbauen kann!
It's amazing that the NHL has been held since 1917, and its best sniper is a Russian, and Russians play in the NHL only 6.7% of the total number, and the first Russian began playing in the NHL in 1988. But to become the best sniper, you have to play for a long time, for example, Ovechkin played 20 seasons. Many Russians did not play in the NHL for so long, since they played part of their careers in Russia.
It is strange that in all this time, there was not a single Canadian who would top the list of the best snipers in the NHL. In the Canadian-American championship, the best sniper is not a Canadian, not an American, but a Russian!
Apparently, the Soviet school of hockey and the genes of the ancestors have an effect.
The second sniper of the NHL Gretzky grandfather and grandmother were from the Russian Empire.
Ovechkin scored goals in the NHL, which featured most of the world's best players, and Gretzky scored most of his goals when most of the world's best players played in the USSR. Below are statistics in which the USSR national team won the overall victory over the Canadians.
The USSR national team scored a total of 42 victories, suffered 16 defeats and drew 10 games with the Canadian national team at the World Championships, Olympic Games, Canada Cup and Super Series.
The super series of matches between the national teams of the USSR and the NHL, as well as between Soviet clubs and the clubs of the NHL and the WHA ended with the following total result: 96 wins, 63 losses and 16 draws in favor of the USSR.
Some statistics:
Number of championships in which the player became the best sniper in the sum of the Olympic Games, World Championships, NHL, Interethnic Hockey League, USSR, CIS and Russia Championships, continental hockey league (Olympic Games/ World Championships / League):
1). Alexander Ovechkin (Russia) – 9 (0/0/9)
2). Bobby Hull (Canada) – 7 (0/0/7)
3). Vsevolod Bobrov (USSR) – 6 (1/1/4)
4). Phil Esposito (Canada) – 6 (0/0/6)
5). Anatoly Firsov (USSR) – 5 (1/3/1)
6). Teemu Selanne (Finland) – 5 (1/1/3)
7). Boris Mikhailov (USSR) – 5 (0/2/3)
8). Sergey Mozyakin (Russia) – 5 (0/0/5)
9). Wayne Gretzky (Canada) – 5 (0/0/5)
10). Gordie Howe (Canada) – 5 (0/0/5)
11). Maurice Richard (Canada) – 5 (0/0/5)
12). Charlie Conacher (Canada) – 5 (0/0/5)
13). Pavel Bure (Russia) – 4 (1/0/3)
14). Vyacheslav Starshinov (USSR) – 4 (0/2/2)
15). Sergey Makarov (USSR) – 4 (0/2/2)
16). Vladimir Krutov (USSR) – 4 (0/1/3)
17). Alexey Guryshev (USSR) – 4 (0/0/4)
18). Andrey Khomutov (USSR/Russia) – 3 (1/1/1)
19). Jerome Iginla (Canada) – 3 (1/0/2)
20). Josef Malechek (Czechoslovakia) – 3 (0/3/0)
21). Vladimir Petrov (USSR) – 3 (0/1/2)
22). Sidney Crosby (Canada) – 3 (0/1/2)
23). Ilya Kovalchuk (Russia) – 3 (0/1/2)
24). Peter Bondra (Slovakia) – 3 (0/1/2)
25). Alexander Yakushev (USSR) – 3 (0/0/3)
26). Helmut Balderis (USSR) – 3 (0/0/3)
27). Mario Lemieux (Canada) – 3 (0/0/3)
28). Brett Hull (USA) – 3 (0/0/3)
29). Bill Cook (Canada) – 3 (0/0/3)
30). Babe Dye (Canada) – 3 (0/0/3)
Number of tournaments (in total, the USSR Championship, Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic Games) in which the player became the top scorer:
1). Sergey Makarov (USSR) – 12
2). Wayne Gretzky (Canada) – 11
3). Vladimir Petrov (USSR) – 8
4). Gordie Howe – 6 (Canada)
5). Mario Lemieux (Canada) – 6
6). Anatoly Firsov (USSR) – 5
7). Jaromir Jagr (Czech Republic) – 5
8). Phil Esposito (Canada) – 5
9). Connor McDavid (Canada) – 5
10). Vsevolod Bobrov (USSR) – 4
11). Alexey Guryshev (USSR) – 4
12). Stan Mikita (Canada) – 4
13). Mats Sundin (Sweden) – 3
14). Alexander Maltsev (USSR) – 3
15). Sidney Crosby (Canada) – 3
16). Evgeni Malkin (Russia) – 3
17). Guy Lafleur (Canada) – 3
18). Bobby Hull (Canada) – 3
The most titled hockey players who have won the tournament (In total, the USSR Championship, Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic Games:), by the number of times:
1). Vladislav Tretiak – 26
2). Vyacheslav Fetisov – 25
3). Sergey Makarov – 23
4). Vladimir Petrov – 22
5). Victor Kuzkin – 22
6). Valery Kharlamov – 21
7). Boris Mikhailov – 20
8). Alexander Ragulin – 20
9). Volodymyr Lutchenko – 20
10). Vladimir Vikulov – 20
11). Andrey Khomutov – 19
12). Anatoly Firsov – 18
13). Alexey Kasatonov – 18
14). Vladimir Krutov – 17
15). Igor Larionov – 16
The six members of the symbolic team were chosen by voting organized by the IIHF. The selection committee included 56 hockey experts from 16 countries in Europe and North America. The final six were announced on May 17, 2008 in Quebec at a gala evening dedicated to the centenary of the IIHF.
Symbolic team of the century:
Goalkeeper: Vladislav Tretiak (USSR) – 30 votes.
Defender: Vyacheslav Fetisov (USSR) – 54 votes.
Defender: Börje Salming (Sweden) – 17 votes.
Wing: Valery Kharlamov (USSR) – 21 votes.
Wing: Sergei Makarov (USSR) – 18 votes.
Center forward: Wayne Gretzky (Canada) – 38 votes
Most of the best hockey players of the 20th century played in the USSR.
As can be seen from the statistics, game results and voting, most of the best and most titled hockey players played in the USSR. But starting in 1989, hockey players from the USSR began to join the ranks of NHL teams. In the 1988-1989 season, 1 skater from the former USSR played in the regular season of the NHL, after the collapse of the USSR in the 1991-1992 season, 24 skaters played, in the 1993-1994 season – 63, and in 2003/04 – 71.
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, hockey players from Eastern Europe got a chance to play in the NHL.
In 1989, the number of Europeans in the NHL exceeded 10% for the first time (12% in the 1989/90 season).
In 1995, the number of European players in the NHL exceeded 20% (21% in the 1995/96 season).
In 2000, a record number of Europeans (123) were selected in the NHL draft (42% of the total number of draftees).
In the first post-lockout season of 2005/2006, 263 Europeans played in the NHL (27.03% of the total number of players).
Ovechkin played in the NHL with higher competition than Gretzky. But you can compare the results of these players, at the time when Soviet players began to play in the NHL.
Gretzky played 373 games in the NHL from 1993 to 1998 and scored 120 goals (an average of 0.32 goals per game) at the age of 32-36. Ovechkin, ages 32-36 (2017-2022), played 353 NHL games and scored 222 goals (0.63 goals per game on average).
Gretzky, ages 27-36, played 721 NHL games and scored 302 goals (0.42 goals per game on average) from 1988-98. Ovechkin, ages 27-36 (2012-2022), played 721 NHL games and scored 441 goals (0.61 goals per game on average).
Ovechkin has won the most goals scored over these periods.
Ovechkin has also won the most seasons in which they have led the league in scoring.
Wayne Gretzky has never been a top scorer since 1991, when after the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, European players flooded into the NHL (the number of Europeans in the NHL increased more than 5 times), and the competition in the NHL itself increased! And Gretzky's scoring rate dropped noticeably. Wayne Gretzky himself said in an interview that it is harder to score now than it was during his playing days (I quote him: "scoring 13 goals now – and this is just my opinion – is much harder than scoring 15 goals, like I did in '93.", "I don't want to offend the guys from the 80s and 90s. They were the best in their time. Trottier, Messier, Lafleur and so on. They were great athletes. But now the game has become faster, it requires even more strength. When I first saw Zdeno Chara on the ice with the Islanders, I said to myself: "My God, when he's on the ice, I should be on the bench. And every time he came out on my shifts, I ran to change." Now two-meter players move well, they can do a lot of things that were unimaginable
before.").
Therefore, no one could come close to Gretzky's eternal record.
The fact that after the collapse of the USSR, most of the best players began to play in the NHL is shown by the following statistics. The ratio of players from different leagues at the 2014 Sochi Olympics:
1 . NHL – 50.67%
2 . KHL/VHL – 17.00%
3 . Switzerland – 7%
4 . Austria – 6%
5 . Sweden – 5.33%
6 . Germany – 3.33%
7 . Norway – 2.67%
8 . Slovakia – 2.33%
9 . Czech Republic – 2%
10 . Finland – 1.33%
11 . France – 1.33%
12 . Kazakhstan – 0.33%
13 . Denmark – 0.33%
14 . Italy – 0.33%
The ratio of players from different leagues at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, excluding players who play in their national championships:
1 . NHL – 52.58%
2 . KHL – 21.65%
3 . Sweden – 7.73%
4 . Germany – 5.15%
5 . Slovakia – 3.09%
6 . Switzerland – 2.58%
7 . France – 2.06%
8 . Czech Republic – 1.55%
9 . Finland – 1.03%
10 . Austria – 1.03%
11 . Kazakhstan – 0.52%
12 . Denmark – 0.52%
13 . Italy – 0.52%
14 . Norway – 0.00%
Since the collapse of the USSR, when Soviet hockey players began playing in the NHL, Russians have generally become the best snipers in the NHL most often.
Let's count how many times hockey players from different countries became the best snipers in the regular NHL championships after the collapse of the USSR, starting with the 1992/1993 season (the first full season after the collapse of the USSR):
Russia – 14
Canada – 10
USA – 4
Finland – 3
Czech Republic – 2
Slovakia – 2
Also in the top three highest paid NHL players throughout their careers are two Russians: Ovechkin and Malkin.
Before the collapse of the USSR, Soviet hockey players dominated world hockey, and after the collapse they went to play in the NHL and now dominate it, scoring more goals than others and earning more money than others, despite the fact that they are a minority there.
Russian and Soviet hockey players took most of the titles and records!
OMG what an insane thing…a 38 year old didn't have a heart attack through the season… WHAT A MIRACLE…
Ovi did it without a bodyguard.
Howe retires with 801 goals, people said no player will ever break that record.
Gretzky: Oh yeah? Watch me!
Gretzky retires with 894 goals, people said no player will ever break that record.
Ovechkin: Oh yeah? Watch me!
Ovi loves Vladimir.