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“He is at a different level of being.” Washington reacted to Ovechkina’s 1600th point
The Washington Capitals press service reacted to the 1600th point in the career of the team captain Alexander Ovechkin in the NHL.
On March 9, the Russian hockey player was noted by an abandoned puck in the NHL regular season match against Seattle (4: 2). On the account of the 39 -year -old striker there were 1,600 points (886 goals and 714 assists) in 1474 matches of “Nortia”.
“You understand that you are at a different level of being in this sport, when reaching a mark of 1600 points per career is not even the most impressive thing you did today,” the club said on social networks.
Ovechkina abandoned 886 goals in the NHL regular championships in his entire career. It takes second place in the list of the best snipers in the history of the League, second only to Canadian Wayne Gretzki (894). Given the playoffs of Ovechkin 958 abandoned goals in the NHL, according to this indicator, it also goes the second after Gretzka (1016).
Source: Sportbox
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