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Alexander Ovechkin has conquered the line of 500 goals in the NHL, but the Russian is clearly not going to stop there.
Only four hockey players scored 500 goals faster than Ovechkin
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Three more goals will take Ovechkin to fifth place on the list of the best European snipers in NHL history. From this position, the Russian will move another Washington legend - Peter Bondra (503 goals).
With further advancement on the list, Ovechkin will have to wait, most likely, until next season. The full alignment in the list of the best NHL goalscorers from Europe looks like this:
- 501 goals (500th goal in 801st match).
Peter Bondra - 503 goals (500th goal in 1050th match).
Mats Sundin - 564 goals (500th goal in 1162nd match).
Jari Kurri - 601 goals (500th goal in 833rd match).
Teemu Selanne - 684 goals (500th goal in 982nd match).
Jaromir Jagr- 737 goals (500th goal in 928th match).
In terms of rate of fire, of the Europeans, Ovechkin can only be compared with Jari Kurri, who took 32 more matches to score the 500th goal. At the same time, Ovechkin scored his anniversary goal at the age of 30 years and 3 months, and Kurri at 32 years old, Jagr at 30 years and 11 months, Sundin at 34 years old, Selanne at 36, Bondra at 37.
Who will be next to reach 500 goals in the NHL?
Now in the league there are only three hockey players who have scored more than 500 goals in their NHL careers. In addition to Ovechkin, these are Jaromir Jagr and Jerome Iginla. But already this season they can be accompanied by one hockey player.
Marian Gossa - 493 (goals).
Patrick Marlowe - 470.
Vincent Lecavalier - 407.
Patrick Eliash - 407.
Rick Nash - 390.
Let Gossa not score so much in this season, but he will score seven more goals. Patrick Marlowe should reach the anniversary mark next season, but Lecavalier and Eliash, with all due respect to them, are unlikely to be able to conquer this milestone.
Among the players under 30, Sidney Crosby (314 goals) and Steven Stamkos (294) are worth highlighting. Of the Russians on paper, Pavel Datsyuk (303) is the closest to this goal, but in fact, in the next 10 years, only Evgeny Malkin (287) can conquer the 500th goal.
Washington Capitals forward becomes first Russian hockey player who have scored 500 goals in the NHL.
This happened on a traditionally difficult night for Russia - the same one when it was the first yesterday, and today it is already the tenth, and one must somehow come to terms with this amazing circumstance and move on. At the end of the second period, “Capitals” played out a numerical majority, culminating in the signature click of Alexander Ovechkin. Under the arches of the capital's "Verazon Center" with a lingering irreversibility siren howled, the audience greeted the Russian forward with an ovation, and the bench of "Washington" in full complement poured out onto the ice to congratulate the captain.
Calling a spade a spade - Alex Ovi has set a unique achievement, having managed to enter the elite "Club 500", which, besides himself, includes only 42 hockey players.
Agree, this is not so much for the league, which in next year will celebrate its centenary.
On December 20, 2013, the Washington Capitals forward reached 400 goals, and from then until yesterday night the very process continued, which even the smiling and tolerant Wayne Gretzky called "a shitty marathon." This happens in the Big Show, when you go for some achievement and everyone around you counts your goals / points / shutouts / minutes in penalty box or something else: in general, the pressure is enormous. On the way to the coveted figure, Alexander Ovechkin broke records of Russian scorers - Ilya Kovalchuk (417 goals), Alexei Kovalev (430), Pavel Bure (437), Alexander Mogilny (473) and Sergei Fedorov (483) - hockey players who are only slightly not enough before joining the "500 Club".
Ovechkin did what they could not do.
Ovechkin - anniversary pucks in the NHL:
Then there were words. Former Washington GM George McPhee, who chose the striker as the first pick of the draft 12 years ago, happily rejoiced that at that time he had a choice between Ovechkin and Malkin, but he did not think for a long time, since it was Ovi's game that reminded him of hockey performed by Gordie Howe and Eric Lindros - technical players who do not hesitate to wage a power struggle at the same time. Alexander Mogilny will say that The Great Eight ("Great Eight", the nickname assigned to the striker in Washington) is capable of reaching 750 goals in the NHL in his career, and Pavel Bure will add thoughtfully that he certainly will not score 1000 goals. A Ukrainian-born Slovakian, who spent 13 seasons with the Capitals, Peter Bondra, and himself a member of the 500 Club, addressed Ovechkin with his warmest wishes, asking the Russian to continue terrorizing opponents.
Ovechkin - all goals by teams:
At the moment, Alex Ovechkin occupies 42nd place in the list of five hundred players in the NHL, but with almost every next puck he will climb higher and higher. Another thing is even more interesting. On five hundred of his glorious goals, the Russian striker spent 801 matches - thus, he became the fifth NHL player to reach the anniversary figure the fastest. Only the great and the members of the Hockey Hall of Fame needed to play fewer matches: Wayne Gretzky needed 575 matches, Mario Lemieux - 605, Mike Bossy - 647, Brett Hull - 693 grandmaster 50 goals in the regular season (by the way, Mario Lemieux crossed this line the same number of times) and, apparently, is not going to stop. 30 years - invisible Rubicon when hypothetical fall physical form associated with age is leveled by experience.
This means that it is quite possible to score a lot.
Here is a graph of Ovechkin's goals. The gray squares are the approximate future calculated by the all-knowing NHL specialists, these gloomy digital and statistical geniuses who know how to calculate everything in this world, at least somehow connected with hockey. According to this schedule, the eighth number of the capital team will reach 600 goals in 2018, and the seven hundredth will be scored in 2021. If the striker plays until the age of 39, then he may also submit to the incredible figure of 800 goals, which remains the unattainable fiefdom of two great hockey players, Wayne Gretzky (894) and Gordie Howe (801).
Fastest Way to 500 Washers:
Favorite victims of Alexander Ovechkin:
Ovi's assistants:
✔ Alexander Ovechkin: 501 goals in 801 games.
✔ 185 goals in the majority.
✔ 94 goals scored lit the scoreboard.
✔ 85 winning goals.
✔ 25 - into an empty net.
✔ 1 period - 147, 2 period - 158, 3 period - 180, overtime - 16.
✔ 2 goals are scored in a shootout.
✔ 253 washers per home arena, 248 - for guests.
Players from the former Soviet Union have been playing in the NHL for almost thirty years (we will not take into account Viktor Nechaev from Amur Belogorsk, who in 1983 played 3 matches for " Los angeles kings"and scored a goal against the New York Rangers): great and those who carry the piano, lucky and not very. that others could only dream of.
500 goals in Show is a great achievement. But we need to go further. The immediate goals are well known: Joe Mullen has 502 goals, Peter Bondra has 503, Jean Beliveau stopped at 507, and so on. Ovechkin can only do what he knows best.
Throw on goal.
- This is a special moment. It's great to be in the category of those who have reached this figure. In the current NHL, it is really difficult to score goals. If you score 30-35 goals in a season, you're lucky. And I would hardly have been able to achieve such indicators without my teammates, - said Alexander Ovechkin after the match with Ottawa.
Indeed, the meeting with the Senators was successful for the entire Washington, which did not leave a stone unturned from the Canadian team, and its captain scored in the second period his 500th goal in the regular championships in his overseas career, breaking through Andrew Hammond in the majority at the end of the second period.
Goosebumps ... Ovechkin's 500th goal in the NHL, he was congratulated by the whole stadium, and the whole team jumped out onto the ice! https://t.co/trhRiiCZOC
- Hockey (KHL, NHL) (@khlnhl) 11 january 2016
By this time, the question of the winner of the meeting was no longer a question, since the "capitals" opposed the goals of TJ Oshi, Zach Silla and Dmitry a to the 20th puck of the season by that time.
In the third period, “Washington” twice forced Hammond to surrender. First, he distinguished himself, and then Ovechkin in a counterattack easily rolled around and scored his second in the match and 26th of the season, becoming the sole leader of the sniper race of the season.
It took Ovi 801 games to hit 500 goals, the fifth highest rate of fire in history. Only (693 games), (647), (605) and, of course, (575) reached such a significant milestone faster. Ovechkin is the most productive player in the strongest league in the world since 2005.
Other Russians from Washington also played well. Orlov threw the puck and finished the meeting with a +2 rating, and was marked by an assist.
As for Ottawa, they have lost three games out of the last five and are currently outside the cup eight.
Anaheim Ducks - Detroit Red Wings - 1: 2
The Russian center forward of Detroit Datsyuk played the next match without points. Although, at the same time, the adequacy of the people responsible for the statistics raises doubts, since it was Pavel who gave the pass, who opened the scoring already at the 16th second of the meeting. As a result, the goal was scored “without assistants”.
The Ducks won back with Corey's efforts in the first period, but then the goalkeepers dried up their goal. The Czech Red Wings goalkeeper Peter Mrazek tried especially hard, having saved 30 shots in the end.
His efforts were rewarded with Riley Sheehan's puck with a pass at the end of the third period, which brought Detroit the victory.
Datsyuk, like the defender, ended the meeting with zero utility, as he was on the ice when Perry equalized the score.
Chicago Blackhawks - Colorado Avalanche - 6: 3
The match with the Chicago "black hawks" was unsuccessful for their evil genius Semyon Varlamov. In the last ten meetings with the Blackhawks, the goalkeeper has had eight wins and one defeat in additional time, 1.48 goals conceded on average per game and 96.1% of reflected shots.
However, in the reporting meeting, he replaced his main goalkeeper in the middle of the game, after scoring his second puck in the match and making the score 4: 2. At that time, Varlamov had only 16 saves on his account with 20 shots on target.
In the second puck, Kane was assisted, among other things, and when he scored the first goal, it was not without the help of Artemiy Panarin. Kane continues to lead in the bombing race with 62 points (25 goals, 37 assists). The closest to him is the Dallas captain, nine points behind.
The replacement of the goalkeeper did not help the avalanche, since Marian Gossa also brought the score to a large one before the second break, and Nathan Macinnon's puck in the final 20 minutes was not enough to return the intrigue to the meeting.
Other matches
Winnipeg Jets - Buffalo Sabers - 2: 4
Minnesota Wild - New Jersey Devils - 1: 2
Edmonton Oilers - Florida Panthers - 1: 2
He took part in the winning goal of New Jersey with an assist, did not score points, but ended the meeting with Buffalo with zero utility despite the defeat, and from Florida finished the match with Edmonton with -1, although " panthers "and prevailed. For Florida, this victory was the 12th in a row.
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In the 1961/62 season, he became the second player to reach the milestone of 500 goals in his career, only in the 1969/70 season Bobby Hull joined him and Maurice Richard.
500 or more goals in a career
As of 28 October 2016.Legend:
I = Total number of games played in the NHL; G = Number of goals in a career; Team = The team in which the player scored the 500th goal; No. I = Serial number of the game in which the hockey player scored the 500th goal; Date = Date of the match in which the player scored the 500th goal;
Highlighted current NHL players
| # | Player | AND | G | Command | No.I | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wayne Gretzky | 1487 | 894 | Edmonton Oilers | 575 | 01986-11-22 November 22, 1986 |
| 2 | Gordie Howe | 1767 | 801 | Detroit Red Wings | 1045 | 01962-03-14 March 14, 1962 |
| 3 | Jaromir Jagr | 1636 | 750 | Washington Capitals | 928 | 02003-02-04 4 February 2003 |
| 4 | Brett Hull | 1269 | 741 | St. Louis Blues | 693 | 01996-12-22 December 22, 1996 |
| 5 | Marcel Dionne | 1348 | 731 | Los angeles kings | 887 | 01982-12-14 December 14, 1982 |
| 6 | Phil Esposito | 1282 | 717 | Boston Bruins | 803 | 01974-12-22 December 22, 1974 |
| 7 | Mike Gartner | 1432 | 708 | New York Rangers | 936 | 01991-10-14 October 14, 1991 |
| 8 | Mark Messier | 1756 | 694 | New York Rangers | 1141 | 01995-11-06 November 6, 1995 |
| 9 | Steve Yzerman | 1514 | 692 | Detroit Red Wings | 906 | 01996-01-17 January 17, 1996 |
| 10 | Mario Lemieux | 915 | 690 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 605 | 01995-10-26 October 26, 1995 |
| 11 | Teemu Selanne | 1451 | 684 | Anaheim Ducks | 982 | 02006-11-26 November 26, 2006 |
| 12 | Luke Robitaille | 1431 | 668 | Los angeles kings | 928 | 01999-01-07 7 January 1999 |
| 13 | Brendan Shanahan | 1524 | 656 | Detroit Red Wings | 1100 | 02002-03-23 March 23, 2002 |
| 14 | Dave Andreychuk | 1639 | 640 | New Jersey Devils | 1070 | 01997-03-15 March 15, 1997 |
| 15 | Joe Sakik | 1378 | 625 | Colorado Avalanche | 1044 | 02002-12-11 11 December 2002 |
| 16 | Jerome Iginla | 1480 | 612 | Calgary Flames | 1149 | 02012-01-07 7 January 2012 |
| 17 | Bobby Hull | 1063 | 610 | Chicago Blackhawks | 861 | 01970-02-21 21 February 1970 |
| 18 | Dino Sissarelli | 1232 | 608 | Detroit Red Wings | 946 | 01994-01-08 8 January 1994 |
| 19 | Jari Kurri | 1251 | 601 | Los angeles kings | 833 | 01992-10-17 October 17, 1992 |
| 20 | Mark Recky | 1571 | 577 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1303 | 02007-01-26 January 26, 2007 |
| 21 | Mike Bossy | 752 | 573 | New York Islanders | 647 | 01986-01-02 2 January 1986 |
| 22 | Mats Sundin | 1346 | 564 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 1162 | 02006-10-14 October 14, 2006 |
| 22 | Joe Nuindike | 1257 | 564 | New Jersey Devils | 1094 | 02003-01-17 January 17, 2003 |
| 24 | Mike Modano | 1459 | 561 | Dallas stars | 1225 | 02007-03-13 March 13, 2007 |
| 25 | Guy Lafleur | 1126 | 560 | Montreal Canadiens | 896 | 01983-12-20 December 20, 1983 |
| 26 | Johnny Butsik | 1540 | 556 | Boston Bruins | 1370 | 01975-10-30 October 30, 1975 |
| 27 | Ron Francis | 1731 | 549 | Carolina Hurricanes | 1533 | 02002-01-02 2 January 2002 |
| 28 | Michelle Goulet | 1089 | 548 | Chicago Blackhawks | 951 | 01992-02-16 16 February 1992 |
| 29 | Maurice Richard | 978 | 544 | Montreal Canadiens | 863 | 01957-10-19 October 19, 1957 |
| 30 | Stan Mikita | 1394 | 541 | Chicago Blackhawks | 1221 | 01977-02-27 February 27, 1977 |
| 31 | Kit Tkachuk | 1201 | 538 | St. Louis Blues | 1055 | 02008-04-06 April 6, 2008 |
| 32 | Frank Makhovlich | 1181 | 533 | Montreal Canadiens | 1105 | 01973-03-21 March 21, 1973 |
| 33 | Alexander Ovechkin | 845 | 529 | Washington Capitals | 801 | 02016-01-10 10 January 2016 |
| 34 | Brian Trottier | 1279 | 524 | New York Islanders | 1104 | 01990-02-13 13 February 1990 |
| 35 | Pat Verbeek | 1424 | 522 | Detroit Red Wings | 1285 | 02000-03-22 22 March 2000 |
| 36 | Dale Haverchuk | 1188 | 518 | St. Louis Blues | 1103 | 01996-01-31 January 31, 1996 |
| 37 | Pierre Tarjon | 1294 | 515 | Colorado Avalanche | 1229 | 02005-11-08 November 8, 2005 |
| 38 | Jeremy Roenick | 1363 | 513 | San Jose Sharks | 1267 | 02007-11-10 November 10, 2007 |
| 39 | Gilbert Perrault | 1191 | 512 | Buffalo Sabers | 1159 | 01986-03-09 March 9, 1986 |
| 40 | Jean Beliveau | 1125 | 507 | Montreal Canadiens | 1101 | 01971-02-11 11 February 1971 |
| 41 | Peter Bondra | 1081 | 503 | Chicago Blackhawks | 1050 | 02006-12-22 December 22, 2006 |
| 42 | Joe Mullen | 1062 | 502 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1052 | 01997-03-14 March 14, 1997 |
| 43 | Marian Gossa | 1243 | 501 | Chicago Blackhawks | 1240 | 02016-10-18 18 October 2016 |
| 44 | Lanny McDonald | 1111 | 500 | Calgary Flames | 1107 | 01989-03-21 March 21, 1989 |
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- I have the honor to report, Colonel, there are only eight charges, would you order to continue firing? - he asked.- Buckshot! - Without answering, the senior officer shouted, looking over the shaft.
Suddenly something happened; The officer gasped and, curled up, sat down on the ground like a bird shot down on the fly. Everything became strange, vague and gloomy in Pierre's eyes.
One after another whistled cannonballs and fought at the parapet, at the soldiers, at the cannons. Pierre, who had not heard these sounds before, now only heard these sounds alone. On the side of the battery, on the right, with a shout of "hurray", the soldiers ran not forward, but backward, as it seemed to Pierre.
The cannonball hit the very edge of the rampart in front of which Pierre was standing, poured the earth, and a black ball flashed in his eyes, and at the same instant slapped into something. The militias, who had entered the battery, ran back.
- All buckshot! - shouted the officer.
The non-commissioned officer ran up to the senior officer and in a frightened whisper (as a butler reports to the owner at dinner that there is no more wine required), he said that there were no more charges.
- Robbers, what are they doing! - shouted the officer, turning to Pierre. The senior officer's face was red and sweaty, and his frowning eyes glittered. - Run to the reserves, bring the boxes! He shouted, angrily avoiding Pierre and turning to his soldier.
“I'll go,” said Pierre. The officer, not answering him, walked with long strides in the other direction.
- Don't shoot ... Wait! He shouted.
The soldier, who was ordered to go for the charges, ran into Pierre.
- Eh, sir, you don't belong here, - he said and ran downstairs. Pierre ran after the soldier, bypassing the place where the young officer was sitting.
One, another, a third core flew over him, hitting in front, from the sides, from behind. Pierre ran downstairs. "Where am I?" - he suddenly remembered, already running up to the green boxes. He hesitated to go back or forward. Suddenly a terrible jolt threw him back to the ground. At the same instant, the brilliance of a large fire illuminated him, and at the same instant there was a deafening thunder, crackling and whistling that rang in his ears.
Pierre, waking up, was sitting on his backside, resting his hands on the ground; the box he was near was not there; only burnt green boards and rags were scattered on the scorched grass, and a horse, rubbing the shafts with fragments, galloped away from it, while the other, like Pierre himself, lay on the ground and screeched piercingly, prolongedly.
Pierre, not remembering himself from fear, jumped up and ran back to the battery, as to the only refuge from all the horrors that surrounded him.
While Pierre was entering the trench, he noticed that no shots were heard on the battery, but some people were doing something there. Pierre did not have time to understand what kind of people they were. He saw the senior colonel lying with his back to him on the rampart, as if looking at something below, and he saw one soldier, who he saw, who, bursting forward from the people who were holding his hand, shouted: "Brothers!" - and saw something else strange.
But he had not yet had time to realize that the colonel had been killed, that the one who was shouting "brothers!" there was a prisoner that in his eyes another soldier was stabbed in the back with a bayonet. As soon as he ran into the trench, a thin, yellow, with a sweaty face, a man in a blue uniform, with a sword in his hand, ran up to him, shouting something. Pierre, instinctively defending himself from the push, since they, not seeing, fled against each other, put out his hands and grabbed this man (it was a French officer) with one hand on the shoulder, the other proudly. The officer, releasing his sword, grabbed Pierre by the collar.
For a few seconds, both of them looked with frightened eyes at the faces alien to each other, and both were at a loss as to what they had done and what to do. “Was I taken prisoner or was he taken prisoner by me? - thought each of them. But, obviously, the French officer was more inclined to think that he was taken prisoner, because strong hand Pierre, driven by involuntary fear, squeezed his throat tighter and tighter. The Frenchman was about to say something, when suddenly a cannonball whistled low and terribly over their heads, and it seemed to Pierre that the French officer's head had been torn off: so quickly he bent it.
Pierre also bent his head and let go of his hands. Not thinking anymore about who had captured whom, the Frenchman ran back to the battery, and Pierre downhill, stumbling over the dead and wounded, who, it seemed to him, were catching him by the legs. But before he had time to go down, dense crowds of fleeing Russian soldiers appeared towards him, falling, stumbling and shouting, merrily and violently ran to the battery. (This was the attack that Yermolov attributed to himself, saying that only his courage and happiness could have accomplished this feat, and the attack in which he allegedly threw the St. George's crosses on the mound, which were in his pocket.)
The French, who had occupied the battery, fled. Our troops, shouting "Hurray", drove the French so far beyond the battery that it was difficult to stop them.
The prisoners were taken from the battery, including the wounded French general, who was surrounded by officers. Crowds of the wounded, familiar and unfamiliar to Pierre, Russians and French, with faces disfigured by suffering, walked, crawled and rushed on a stretcher from the battery. Pierre entered the mound, where he spent more than an hour, and from the family circle that took him to him, he did not find anyone. There were many dead here, unknown to him. But he recognized some. The young officer was still curled up at the edge of the rampart, in a pool of blood. The red-faced soldier was still twitching, but he was not removed.
Pierre ran downstairs.
"No, now they will leave it, now they will be horrified at what they have done!" Thought Pierre, aimlessly following the crowds of stretchers moving from the battlefield.
But the sun, obscured by smoke, was still high, and in front, and especially to the left of Semyonovsky, something was boiling in the smoke, and the rumble of shots, shooting and cannonade not only did not subside, but intensified to despair, like a man who, straining, screams with the last bit of strength.
The main action of the Battle of Borodino took place in the space of a thousand fathoms between Borodin and Bagration's flushes. (Outside this space, on the one hand, the Russians made a demonstration of Uvarov's cavalry in half a day, on the other hand, behind Utitsa, there was a clash between Poniatovsky and Tuchkov; but these were two separate and weak actions in comparison with what happened in the middle of the battlefield. ) On the field between Borodino and the flushes, near the forest, on an open and visible stretch from both sides, the main action of the battle took place, in the simplest, most ingenious way.
The battle began with cannonade from both sides with several hundred guns.
Then, when the smoke covered the whole field, in this smoke two divisions moved (from the French side) to the right, Desse and Compana, on flushes, and to the left of the viceroy's regiments at Borodino.
From the Shevardino redoubt, on which Napoleon stood, the flushes were at a distance of a mile, and Borodino was more than two miles in a straight line, and therefore Napoleon could not see what was happening there, especially since the smoke, merging with fog, hid the whole locality. The soldiers of Dessé's division, aiming at the flush, were visible only until they descended under the ravine that separated them from the flush. As soon as they descended into the ravine, the smoke of cannon and rifle shots on the flashes became so thick that it covered the entire rise of that side of the ravine. Something black flashed through the smoke - probably people, and sometimes the glint of bayonets. But whether they were moving or standing, whether they were French or Russian, it was impossible to see from the Shevardinsky redoubt.
The sun rose brightly and slanted beams right into the face of Napoleon, who was looking out from under his arm at the flush. Smoke spread in front of the flushes, and it seemed that the smoke was moving, then it seemed that the troops were moving. The screams of people were sometimes heard from behind the shots, but it was impossible to know what they were doing there.
Napoleon, standing on the mound, looked into the chimney, and in the small circle of the chimney he saw smoke and people, sometimes his own, sometimes Russians; but where that which he saw was, he did not know when he looked again with a simple eye.
He left the mound and began to walk up and down in front of him.
From time to time he stopped, listened to the shots and peered out into the battlefield.
Not only from the place below where he stood, not only from the mound on which some of his generals were now standing, but also from the very flushes, on which there were now together and alternately now Russians, now French, dead, wounded and alive, frightened or the maddened soldiers, it was impossible to understand what was going on in this place. For several hours, at this place, amid the incessant firing of rifle and cannon, now there appeared only Russians, now only French, now infantry, now cavalry soldiers; appeared, fell, shot, collided, not knowing what to do with each other, shouted and ran back.
Sergey Starikov
With a double in the National Hockey League match, Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin has scored 600 goals. This milestone has been conquered by only 20 hockey players in history. A significant event took place in the 990th match of the Russian striker in the regular season. Apart from him, only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Brett Hull were noted for such a rate of fire. About the unique achievement of the 32-year-old hockey player - in the material RT.
- Patrick Smith / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
Club 600 goals
Alexander Ovechkin has long been one of the greatest hockey players in the history of the National Hockey League (NHL). During his career in the NHL, he has won numerous club records, as well as famed as one of the best goalscorer in the history of the league. On March 13, 2018, he took another step towards immortalizing his name. Forward Washington Capitals.
The 32-year-old Muscovite won this milestone in the regular season match against the Winnipeg Jets. He sent his 599th puck into the gates of Connor Hellebike already in the fifth minute of the first period. The Canadian team found itself in a difficult situation, earning two deletions in a row at once, and Ovechkin went to realize the chance. Alexander got a pass near the left throw-in circle and shot irresistibly into the corner.
Before the anniversary puck, Ovechkin had only one accurate throw which he did 19 minutes later. The capital's hockey players carried out a massive attack, during which Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson tried to hit the gate of Hellebike from a patch. The American saved his team several times, but the captain of "Washington" played on the finishing move.
Ovechkin was included in the list of 20 hockey players who have surpassed the milestone of 600 abandoned goals in his career. The leader in this respect is Wayne Gretzky with 894 goals. In second place is Gordy Howe, who distinguished himself 801 times, and in third - Jaromir Jagr. The Czech has scored 766 goals.
It is noteworthy that Ovechkin is one of the three active hockey players to whom the line of 600 goals was submitted. In addition to him and Jagr, only Canadian Jerome Iginla continues the player's career. The 40-year-old athlete has 625 goals.
In addition, the Washington captain is one of four players who took less than 1,000 games to reach 600 goals in the NHL. This list also includes Gretzky (718), Lemieux (719) and Brett Hull (900).
Record holder
Ovechkin has been defending Washington's colors since 2005 and during this time has become a symbol of the club and. So, he is the leader of the team in the entire history in terms of the number of points scored (1109), hat-tricks (20), as well as the number of goals scored in one season. In the 2007/08 regular season, he hit the opponents' goal 65 times.
Over 13 seasons in the NHL, the 32-year-old has scored more than 40 goals nine times per season, six times - 50 or more. If he manages to maintain such a rate of fire, then by the age of 35 he has every chance of overstepping the mark of 700 heads.
Concerning Russian players NHL, here Ovechkin's position in the rank of the main sniper is unshakable. The second place in the number of goals scored is taken by ex-Detroit Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov with 483 goals, the third - by former Buffalo Sabers striker Alexander Mogilny, who scored ten times less. The closest pursuer of the current players is the player " Pittsburgh Penguins»Evgeni Malkin - 367 goals.
Among the achievements of the Russian - a large number of NHL awards. He is a six-time winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy, which is awarded to the best sniper league since 1999, which is a record. Three times he received the Hart Trophy - the prize for the most valuable player in the regular season.
"Ovechkin is still the king"
After the match, the record holder shared his emotions from the 600th scored puck.
“I felt like I did it. 20 players have scored so much, it is a great honor to be among them. Of course, there are still many matches ahead. When you score so many goals, you want more, more and more, ”said Ovechkin.
He also said that he would not be able to enjoy his achievement for a long time.
“Of course, you hope to use the moment. After scoring the first goal, I knew that I still have a lot of time to throw the 600th. I have scored, there is just a little time left to enjoy it - and tomorrow is a new day, ”added the hockey player.
Washington head coach Barry Trotz believes Ovechkin has proven his title as the NHL's top scorer.
“It was a very special match. Not only thanks to Alex's anniversary goal, but also because two of the best shooting players on the planet came face to face (Ovechkin and Winnipeg striker Patrick Laine - RT). Alexander has proven that he is still the king. But, you know, the other day I caught the eye of Laine's phrase, which I really liked. He said that this is a huge number of goals, which the Russian got to very quickly. And that these are the indicators that he himself is going to focus on. I am very impressed with his attitude. But until he does all this, Ovechkin will remain king, ”Trotz said.
This season, Laine is one of Ovechkin's main rivals in the sniper race. Currently, he has 41 goals, so he is only one goal behind Alexander. Laine also distinguished himself in the match with Washington, equalizing the score less than five minutes before the final siren.
After the meeting, the Finnish forward admitted that it was an honor for him to be on the ice when Ovechkin scored his 600th goal.
“I saw everything well, I was right behind him when he scored. I was there when he made history. Perhaps one day I will watch the video and show that I was there, earning a minus on the ice, ”Laine said.
Ovechkin's compatriot Evgeny Kuznetsov became the author of the winning goal in the match against Winnipeg. He expressed the opinion that in modern hockey it's almost impossible to do what his teammate does almost every year.
“With the hockey that the NHL plays in last years, it was not so easy to score even 40 goals in a season. I am not a sniper, it is difficult for me to evaluate it, I have never really had such a task. But I think that in our time to score 600 goals is an almost impossible task. I would not be surprised if no one among the hockey players of my generation scores as much. I don't even know how many goals he is ahead of the closest pursuer over the years. To be honest, I don't care. I just know that Sanya is okay, ”the NHL official website quotes Kuznetsov as saying.
Kuznetsov admitted that he was happy to share the ice with the hockey legend.
“And we also know that as soon as he breaks another record, we will have a free lunch or dinner. And we are happy for him not even because he beats some kind of super records, but simply because a person does everything possible. We somehow especially in his face and do not praise him for everything, but in my heart, of course, it is nice that you are next to the legend every day. You can joke somewhere on him, somewhere he will joke on you. Playing in the same team, you do not even notice it, but you will look from the outside - in fact, people only dream of something like that, "added Kuznetsov.
Columbus Blue Jackets forward Artemy Panarin congratulated Ovechkin and noted that he considered 600 goals an incredible result.
“This is just an incredible event. I don't understand how you can score so many goals for such a long time. I have no answer to the question of how this is possible. I am happy for him and respect him for these goals. This is far from me. I will have to do the same, ”said Panarin.
Double Olympic champion Vyacheslav Bykov urged Ovechkin not to stop there.
“600 goals is a phenomenal result of a great master. But just write: no relaxation, Sasha! We are waiting for a thousand from you! What do we need Gretzky, that we have other guys - we have our own, "Bykov emphasized.
Former Main coach the Russian national team revealed the secret of Ovechkin's throw, which allowed him to achieve this result.
“The secret of Ovechkin's signature throw lies in his tireless work. As a professional musician plays scales every day, so Alexander hones his throw so that it can be debugged without the slightest marriage. From this point of his on the left throw-in circle, he has a sense of distance, a sense of goal, that no one else has. And add to this the understanding of the goalkeeper's game that he has accumulated. Ovechkin honed his shot from this place so that almost any of them is fatal for the goalkeeper. And this is his daily work, "Bykov noted.