>The Washington Capitals left wing scored his 895th goal to surpass Wayne Gretzky for the most in NHL history against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena on Sunday.>Ovechkin scored his record-breaking goal at 7:26 of the second period on the power play.

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▶NEW ALLTIME GOAL RECORD Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 18:39:57 No.1691066

>The Washington Capitals left wing scored his 895th goal to surpass Wayne Gretzky for the most in NHL history against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena on Sunday.
>Ovechkin scored his record-breaking goal at 7:26 of the second period on the power play. He took a pass from Tom Wilson and ripped a wrist shot from the left face-off circle past Ilya Sorokin for his 895th goal to cut New York’s lead to 2-1.
>The 39-year-old tied Gretzky by scoring his 894th goal against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday.
>After scoring the goal, Ovechkin slid on his belly toward center ice, where he was mobbed by his teammates.
>The game was stopped for about 10 minutes for a ceremony at center ice that included Ovechkin's wife and two sons, Capitals owner Ted Leonis, Gretzky and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
>“Wayne, you'll always be the 'Great One' and you had a record that nobody ever thought would be broken," Bettman said. "But Alex, you did it. You've been amazing.”
pretty impressive feat

▶Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 19:36:18 No.1691075>>1691078 >>1691087

>39 years old
this dude must be made of rocks to be doing ice fight at that age

▶Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 20:09:42 No.1691078

>>1691075
A lot of its momentum and hand-eye coordination. You get physically weaker as you age but your hand-eye coordination actually improves and your endurance remains about the same (you just take longer to recover). You'll notice that the older players usually let the younger players do the more physically stressful parts of the game like the high-contact contests, and they mostly handle the technical skills (like scoring) and communicating gud with the other guys during passes.

▶Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 20:14:04 No.1691079

Don't get me wrong Gretzky probably takes 45 minutes to get out of bed due to old injuries and has to put a hot compress on his knee to get walking gud, don't want to make it seem like the guy is young and spry. Same is true for most athletes over 30.

▶Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 20:29:43 No.1691085

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i don't follow icecrik but gud for him

▶Spartman 04/06/25 (Sun) 20:31:47 No.1691087

>>1691075
ovechkins not the guy out there takin a zillion hits tho. hes worth too much for that.

and didnt borque play straight from age 16 till heem was lik 50+? its been done a few times. there was that other guy who came back to da NHL in his 50s to play a season w his son too, i think he has the record technically for most hospice
tbh, barring some crazy injury, ovechkins got enough to time left to make a truly unbeatable record. hes still a raly excellent player

▶Spartman 04/07/25 (Mon) 00:46:20 No.1691134

gud goin budy ur dab est now. cool gretzky was there and got on ice for the celebration. a true passing of the mantle.

▶Spartman 04/07/25 (Mon) 01:22:33 No.1691142>>1691163

>gretzky had an 894 goal record that stood for 26 years
>he retired at 38
>ovechkin is 39 and shows no signs of retiring
this guy's gonna set an eternity record isn't he

▶Spartman 04/07/25 (Mon) 05:00:48 No.1691163

>>1691142
he said that once he has the record he'll end his career in the khl. also auston matthews is already on pace to beat his record