19 Twenties and A New Friend in Net: Alex Ovechkin Records 19th ...

20 Mar 2024

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Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin continued to add his name to the NHL record books on Monday night, reaching the 20-goal plateau in the team’s evening contest against the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome.

Alex Ovechkin - Figure 1
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Ovechkin, who sat 53 goals away from Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record entering the night, potted his first goal against the Flames’ Dustin Wolf at 5:58 of the second period on the power play; assists were credited to Max Pacioretty and Tom Wilson.

NINE! TEEN! 20-GOAL SEASONS FOR THE #GR8 pic.twitter.com/OOctfO6y3J

— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 19, 2024

The Caps’ captain netted his second of the night and on the man-advantage at 9:16, this time on assists from John Carlson and Dylan Strome.

THE #GR8‘S ON HATTY WATCH pic.twitter.com/aLotiyL6MV

— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 19, 2024

Ovechkin’s first tally on Wolf marked the 174th different goaltender on which he has scored, with only two other players (Jaromir Jagr and Patrick Marleau) having scored on more opposing netminders in NHL history; additionally it marks the fifth new ‘tender this season.

Alex Ovechkin’s power-play goal marked his first career goal against Dustin Wolf, the 174th different goaltender Ovechkin has scored on in his career. Only Jaromir Jagr (178) and Patrick Marleau (177) have scored on more goaltenders in NHL history.

— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 19, 2024

The second power play tally also gives Ovechkin his 24th multi-PPG game and his 170th multi-goal game.

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By notching his 20th goal on the 2023-24 season, Ovechkin also became just the fifth NHLer to record 19, 20-goal campaigns, the third to do it in 19-consecutive seasons, and the only player to do so to start his career.

Alex Ovechkin scores his 20th goal of the season to extend Washington’s lead to 2-0. Ovechkin is the fifth player in NHL history to reach the 20-goal mark 19 times and only the third to record 19 straight 20-goal seasons (Gordie Howe: 22; Brendan Shanahan: 19).

— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 19, 2024

Ovechkin is the only player in NHL history to record 19 consecutive 20-goal seasons from the start of his career.

— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 19, 2024

The Great Eight is now 51 goals shy of tying the all-time Goals record with 16 games left on the regular season. He now has 21 goals and 52 Points on the season.

That’s a lot of goalies. ????

Alex Ovechkin scored on the 174th different goaltender of his career last night! pic.twitter.com/cGen5LaZTW

— NHL (@NHL) March 19, 2024

By Michael Fleetwood

About Michael Fleetwood

Michael Fleetwood was born into a family of diehard Capitals fans and has been watching games as long as he can remember. He was born the year the Capitals went to their first Stanley Cup Final, and is a diehard Caps fan, the owner of the very FIRST Joe Beninati jersey and since then, has met Joe himself. Michael joined the NoVa Caps team in 2015, and is most proud of the growth of the NoVa Caps community in that time. An avid photographer, Michael resides in VA.

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