2024-02-10 23:40:38
Wayne Gretzky and Alexander Ovechkin / Photo: © Jeff Vinnick / Stringer / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
Washington’s Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin scored a goal once morest Boston in an NHL regular season match and broke Wayne Gretzky’s record for the most goals scored into an empty net.
The meeting in Boston ended with a score of 3:0 in favor of the Capitals. In the last minute of the third period, Ovechkin hit the hosts’ empty net – this is the Russian’s twelfth goal of the season and the 57th of his NHL career into an empty net.
Thus, the Russian broke the record of the Canadian Gretzky, who scored 56 goals into an empty net in his career.
Ovechkin brought his NHL goals to 834 and closed the gap to Gretzky’s record to 60 goals. The 38-year-old Russian ranks second on the list of best snipers in league history, followed by Canadian Wayne Gretzky (894).
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