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La route d’Alexander Ovechkin vers 800 buts et tous ses jalons en cours de route



Regardez une compilation de plusieurs des principaux buts marquants de la carrière de l’attaquant des Capitals de Washington Alexander Ovechkin sur sa route vers 800 buts dans la LNH. ———————————————- Abonnez-vous à Sportsnet sur YouTube – http://sprtsnt.ca/2paAT2L Visitez Sportsnet.ca pour plus d’actualités sportives et de faits saillants – http://www.sportsnet.ca Suivez Sportsnet sur Facebook – http://sprtsnt.ca/YTFB Suivez Sportsnet sur Twitter – http://sprtsnt.ca/YTTWTR Suivez Sportsnet sur Instagram – http://sprtsnt.ca/YTINST Suivez Sportsnet sur Snapchat – http://sprtsnt.ca/YTSNAP Regardez Sportsnet sur Sportsnet maintenant – http://sportsnet.ca /à présent

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  3. luckyea7

    The average league performance after 2005 (when Ovi joined the NHL) is significantly lower than in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the 80s, the performance per match ranged from 7 to 8 goals, and the most “fun” season was the 1981/82 championship – 8.03 goals (it was in that year that Gretzky set an all-time record – 92 goals in the regular season). In the first half of the 90s, the performance in the NHL was slowly declining (with the exception of the 1992/93 championship), and in the 1996/97 season there was a sharp decrease in this indicator – to 5.83 goals per game. In the 2003/04 regular season, the performance dropped to a terrible 5.14 goals.

    This may be due to increased competition in the NHL. After the collapse of the USSR, many hockey players who played in the countries of the Warsaw Pact moved to play in the NHL. The best players on the planet are playing in North America right now. During the Gretzky era, there were almost no Europeans in the NHL. In the 1983/84 season. Only 50 foreigners played in the NHL.

    Ovi came into the league during the "dead puck era," playing against bigger, faster goaltenders who are equipped to look like they're working as fighting dog training dummies. The defenders have also become very large. Gretzky scored half of his goals on some skinny, dangling fools who jumped 5 meters out of the “frame”, trying to cut the corner, and then fell onto the ice.

    In the 1988-1989 season. in the regular season of the NHL, 1 field player from the countries of the former USSR played, after the collapse of the USSR in the 1991-1992 season. 24 field players played in the 1993-1994 season. – 63, and in 2003/04. – 71. As can be seen from the figures, the higher the field players from the countries of the former USSR played, the lower the performance in the NHL. The performance is correlated with the number of players playing in the NHL from the countries of the former USSR.

    From 1975 to 1991, the clubs of the USSR played 108 matches with the teams of the National Hockey League. During this time, the clubs of the USSR won 58 victories, 10 matches ended in a draw and lost 40 times to the representatives of the NHL.

    In 1990/91 USSR clubs won 17 times against NHL clubs, lost 8 times and drew 3 times. This indicates the high competitiveness of Soviet hockey players.

    For example, the results of the teams in which Gretzky played at that time against the teams of the USSR:

    01/04/1980 Edmonton Oilers – Dynamo (Moscow) – 1: 4

    12/27/1985 Edmonton Oilers – CSKA – 3: 6

    12/31/1988 Los Angeles Kings – Dynamo (Riga) – 3:5

    12/04/1989 Los Angeles Kings – Khimik (Voskresensk) – 3:6

    12/03/1990 Los Angeles Kings – Khimik (Voskresensk) – 5: 1

    Also, the symbolic team of the 20th century included 4 players who played in the USSR championships and 2 players who played in the NHL. The six members of the symbolic team were chosen by voting organized by the IIHF. The selection committee included 56 hockey experts from 16 countries in Europe and North America.

    Symbolic team of the century:

    Goalkeeper: Vladislav Tretiak (USSR) – 30 votes.

    Defender: Vyacheslav Fetisov (USSR) – 54 votes.

    Defender: Börje Salming (Sweden) – 17 votes.

    Wing: Valery Kharlamov (USSR) – 21 votes.

    Wing: Sergei Makarov (USSR) – 18 votes.

    Center forward: Wayne Gretzky (Canada) – 38 votes

    Ovechkin played in the NHL with more competition than Gretzky. But you can compare the results of these players, at the time when the Soviet players started playing in the NHL.

    Gretzky played 373 games in the NHL from 1993 to 1998 and scored 120 goals (averaging 0.32 goals per game) at the age of 32-36. Ovechkin, aged 32-36 (from 2017 to 2022), played 353 games in the NHL and scored 222 goals (an average of 0.63 goals per game).

    Gretzky played 721 NHL games and scored 302 goals from 1988 to 1998 (averaging 0.42 goals per game) at the age of 27-36. Ovechkin, aged 27-36 (from 2012 to 2022), played 721 games in the NHL and scored 441 goals (an average of 0.61 goals per game).

    During these periods, Ovechkin won against Gretzky in the number of goals scored.

    In addition, rules contributed to increased performance in the 1980s. Goalkeepers wore narrow shin guards, less sturdy helmets, and play skates, rather than goalie skates, as they are now. Video replays in the league were introduced only in 1991, when Gretzky had already crossed the equator of his career and stopped scoring goals with automatic bursts. In 1993, they changed the rules for playing with a high stick – it was forbidden to lift it above the crossbar, and before that it was allowed to swing up to the shoulder. In 1996, when Gretzky was three years away from retiring from the sport, a trapezoid was introduced – they outlined a section of ice on which the field was forbidden to contact the goalkeepers.

    Ovechkin also won against Gretzky in the number of seasons in which they became the best scorers.

    Number of seasons in which the player became the best scorer:

    1. Alexander Ovechkin – 9 seasons

    2. Bobby Hull – 7 seasons

    3. Phil Esposito – 6 seasons

    4. Wayne Gretzky – 5 seasons

    5. Gordie Howe – 5 seasons

    6. Maurice Richard – 5 seasons

    7. Charlie Conacher – 5 seasons

    8. Pavel Bure – 3 seasons

    9. Teemu Selanne – Season 3

    10. Mario Lemieux – 3 seasons

    11. Brett Hull – 3 seasons

    12. Bill Cook – 3 seasons

    13. Babe Dy – 3 seasons

    Wayne Gretzky has never been a top scorer since 1991, i.e. when, after the collapse of the USSR and the Department of Internal Affairs, European players poured into the NHL, and competition increased in the NHL itself! And his performance has dropped significantly.

  9. Ruben T

    95 to go. And he's showing no signs of slowing down. I think he's going to do it.

  11. B C

    Fun fact, Austin Matthews was at the game of the "greatest" goal against AZ

  13. Christian Sven Jimmie Karlsson

    i remember him in mid 2000s palying against sweden and i thought he was just another young diva from russia.. well, here i am getting goosebumps on his achievements over 15 years later

  14. Алексей Ходалев

    Браво ! Если ОВИ будет играть до 52 лет как ХОУ Боюсь Сказать сколько будет У ОВИ шайб !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. rlylolno

    Bro it feels like last week he broke the record for most goals by a russian.. he scores fast lol

  22. MegaMatt

    Hard to imagine he is the only Russian player to get 500 goals and now more.

  25. GreekboyyD

    000-100 goals | 167 games
    100-200 goals | 129 games
    200-300 goals | 177 games
    300-400 goals | 161 games
    400-500 goals | 167 games
    500-600 goals | 189 games
    600-700 goals | 154 games
    700-800 goals | 161 games

    800 goals in 1305 games

  28. justjoined

    2:46 wow that was a beautiful goal to pass Mario Lemieux! I forgot about that one. Ovechkin has so many highlight goals that a lot of them get forgotten because they aren’t featured in his top 10.

  31. langenbrunner1

    I don’t understand any of the Russian in the comments section but let’s gooooo Ovi! You’ve got fans all over the world! 🇨🇦

  36. OVI-Wan Kenobi

    No other player in the modern NHL era has even come remotely close to Ovechkin when it comes to goal scoring. Even Wayne Gretzky 'The Great One' himself clearly admitted in a 2019 interview: "I played in the right era, it's harder to score now than it was when I played." Back in the 80's there was an average of almost 8 players per season who scored 50 or more goals. In the modern NHL era after the 2004/2005 lockout, that same average has fallen to an average of just 2 players per season.

    The statistical average number of goals scored per game per team in the 14 NHL seasons between 1979 to 1993 when Gretzky played his first 14 seasons was 3.74 goals. The statistical average number of goals scored per game per team in the 14 NHL seasons between 2005 to 2019 when Ovechkin played in his first 14 seasons was 2.84 goals. That's a 32% difference which means that it is statistically 32% more difficult to score goals in the modern era compared to back in the 80's and early 90's.

    When people only look at a 1:1 goal comparison between Gretzky's total goals and Ovechkin's total goals, its like comparing a sprinter who is running on flat level surface to that of a sprinter running uphill on an incline. Ovechkin's modern era goal total needs to be calibrated by a factor of 32% in order to properly compare to Gretzky's goal total: 800 goals x 1.32 = 1056 goals > Gretzky's 894 goals. And that's even before adding in the 50+ goals Ovechkin would have certainly scored in the 2004/2005 lockout season, not to mention the 2 recent shortened seasons due to the pandemic.

    It really puts into perspective what Ovechkin has achieved in the modern NHL era while even having played one less season than Gretzky, and Ovechkin still has 5 or 6 seasons left to play still. It's like catching up to the fastest sprinter in history after having a late start, while running against an incline, and then passing that fastest sprinter while there is still a quarter length of track remaining.

    Just look at the difference between goalies from the 80's and goalies in the modern NHL era. Look at the difference in their size of pads, height, reach, flexibility, technique, and skill. Most goalies from the 80's played worse than today's amateur beer league goalies. During Gretzky's first 14 seasons, the average NHL goalie save % was 0.879 and the average GAA was 3.65, which is unheard of among today's modern era NHL goalies, except maybe in the minors. Also, no players bothered to block shots back in the 80's, imagine how many more goals Ovechkin would have if players today played 80's style defense and did not bother to block shots.

    Gretzky also played on a decade-long dynasty team in an era that had no salary cap. The 80's Oilers Dynasty fab 5 would have never been allowed to exist on the same team after the salary cap was put in place starting in 2005 during Ovechkin's first season. Ovechkin played every single season under a limiting cap which made the league way more competitive and evenly distributed, Gretzky never did, not even a single season.

    Also, Gretzky had the luxury of having his two on-ice bodyguard thugs (Semenko and McSorley) with him all throughout the 80s and the first half of the 90s. Semenko and McSorley constantly intimidated other players and made sure nobody touched Gretzky whenever he had the puck which allowed Gretzky to make all those plays and rack up all those points. Back in the 80s and early 90s, Gretzky was the NHL's official Golden Boy and nobody was allowed to lay a hand on him.

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