Alex Ovechkin nets 885th NHL career goal, now 10 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record

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· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 12:31 AM EST | Last Updated: March 6

Alex Ovechkin scored his 885th vocation extremity midway done the 3rd play of the Washington Capitals' crippled against New York Rangers connected Wednesday night, moving 10 distant from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record.

The Capitals' skipper scored arsenic helium knocked successful a escaped puck from the near broadside with 9:32 near successful the 3rd play to necktie the people 2-2. Ovechkin present has 46 goals successful 76 vocation games against the Rangers.

"Great occupation connected faceoff," Ovechkin said of the play. "Great conflict and the puck came to me."

Capitals manager Spencer Carbery was much effusive successful his praise for his prima forward.

"He has a flair for the dramatics astatine a cardinal infinitesimal successful the game," Carbery said. "The puck squirts to him and helium makes nary mistake. That's a immense extremity for our team, immense extremity connected the powerfulness play. It's not him successful his office, it's him jumping connected a escaped puck."

The Capitals went connected to triumph 3-2 successful overtime connected Tom Wilson's extremity astatine 4:07.

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Ovechkin has 32 goals successful 46 games this season. He had 15 goals successful his archetypal 18 games, past missed 16 games with a fractured near fibula. He returned Dec. 28 and has scored 17 successful 28 games since.

The Russian prima is connected gait to interruption Gretzky's people of 894, which had agelong seemed unapproachable, successful aboriginal April, good earlier the regular play is over.

"What bash we need, 10 much [to acceptable the record]," Carbery said. "Ten more. We got this."

Ovechkin present has 321 power-play goals, extending his NHL record, and is 1 constituent distant from becoming the 11th subordinate to scope 1,600 vocation points.

Ovechkin had 2 shots blocked and an effort denied by Igor Shesterkin connected his archetypal displacement successful the opening minutes of the game. In the 2nd period, helium fired a wrist changeable that was gloved by Shesterkin 2 1/2 minutes in, and turned and sent a changeable that was saved by the goalie with 1:11 to spell successful the period.

He broke done successful the 3rd play and past astir won it 2 minutes into overtime but Shesterkin gloved the puck arsenic helium fell to the crystal with his legs spread.