Alex Ovechkin goals tracker: Capitals star 12 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL record

The Washington Star Capital, Alex Ovecchkin Nhl History. The legendary forward already has a lot of records in the Nhl History books, but continues to pursue the record for all -time goals in Wayne Gretzky.

Ovecchkin is about to become the leader of all NHL goals and can pass the Gretzky 894 mark before the end of the season. Currently, the standard of capitals has 883 career goals after scoring Washington’s only goal in a 3-1 defeat against Calgary flames on Tuesday night. At his previous departure, he published his 32nd Hat Trick on Saturday against Edmonton Oilers.

It now needs 12 more goals in the remaining 24 games of the team to overcome the Gretzky record this season.

The 2023-24 campaign turned out to be a mortal for Ovechkin, where he scored 31 goals, his lowest total in a complete season since he won 32 in the 2012-13 season. Ovechkin had only 24 goals in 2020-21, but this season was shortened due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Ovechkin scored 42 goals during the 2022-23 season and scored at least 41 goals in 13 of his 19 seasons of the NHL.

Ovechkin has currently won 1,597 points (883 goals, 714 assists) in his career. He made even more history in 2023-24 when he recorded a record of the NHL 18th season of 30 Go, going on 17th by Mike Gartner for honor.

To the pace of this season, given its health, Ovechkin would surpass the “big” before the end of the regular season.

Ovecchkin will probably remain a force settled in the highest power game unit, so that there are figures that there are many goals score opportunities. He obviously scored at a much better pace that he did a year ago when he recorded only five goals during the first two months of the season.

CBS Sports will keep track of Ovechkin’s goals throughout the season and keep the tabs about the proximity to which the record of all Gretzky’s time is overshadowed.