Raleigh, nc – Alex Ovechkin after a score of 892. Koerient in Per Performed three targets from breaking the NHL record Wayna Gretzky NHL Washington Capitals‘ 5-1 loss to Carolina Hurricanes Wednesday evening.
Ovechkin beat Frederik Andersen to 5 on 3 power-play with 34.5 seconds remaining in the second period. He entered with nine goals in 12 career games against Andersen, a total of 52 in 91 games faced by Carolina and 31 in 45 games in Raleigh, the most of each guest player.
The 39-year-old Russian has 39 goals this season, tied up for the second most in one season (Gordie Howe, 1967-68) in the history of NHL among players aged 39 or older. Howe’s 44 in 1968-69 is the most.
Ovechkin is one way to reach 40 for the 14th – also most in the history of the league – despite the missing 16 games due to the broken left fibula.
He Scored goal No. 891 per night earlier in Boston. In his career in the regular season, this meant that he scored in the back-to-back games, the fifth player in the history of the league to achieve this performance.
The head of the City of the Eastern Conference has seven more games left this season. Ovechkin is at a pace to go through Gretzky’s mark 894, that it has long seemed that it seems to be inaccessible before the start of play -off.
Because it is only a record in the regular season, Ovechkin’s persecution would continue in October if he did not get two or more this month.
Information from ESPN Research and Associated Press were used in this report.
