Regardez les Capitals de Washington et la LNH honorer l’attaquant Alexander Ovechkin pour avoir marqué le 802e but de sa carrière pour dépasser Gordie Howe et occuper le deuxième rang, derrière Wayne Gretzky, sur la liste des buts de tous les temps. ———————————————- 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 Suivez Sportsnet sur TikTok – http://sprtsnt.ca/ YTTIKTOK Regardez Sportsnet sur Sportsnet maintenant – http://sportsnet.ca/maintenant ———————————- ———— Sportsnet est le réseau sportif #1 au Canada. Votre maison pour les derniers faits saillants, les dernières nouvelles sportives, des interviews approfondies d’athlètes, des podcasts de pointe, des flux en direct et bien plus encore. Ne manquez pas un seul but de reel, un home run énorme, un dunk exceptionnel ou un touchdown époustouflant. Obtenez des scoops et des informations de pointe avec un accès inégalé. Apprenez à connaître une autre facette de vos superstars sportives préférées dans des interviews humoristiques uniques et décalées. Sportsnet est le guichet unique pour le fan qui sommeille en chacun de nous. ———————————————-
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Congrats Ovechkin
Respect from Serbia 🇷🇸 👏 🇷🇺
He scored another one today.
Way to go ovie .! Now the question is could !Mcdavid catch or surpass him .? Let's do the math !
that photo with Ovi, Backy & Oshie <3
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Молодцом👍👍👍
When you compare the ease of goal scoring in Gretzky's era, OVI passed Wayne a long time ago.
If ovie ever surpasses when Gretzky? I. Will be impressed? That's a goal scoring title that nobody's been able to touch for years.
Time after time he's proven that he is the greatest goal scorer in the world ! He deserves this ! He'll be remembered for ever and I am glad I was around to witness it ! I seen Howe ive seen Gretzky I'm WACHING OVIE ! He's not done yet !
Was this from a couple of months ago but just uploaded today or was this ceremony the other day?
Ya gotta give Alex wayyyyyy more admiration than Howe because of todays difficulty in getting a puck past these goalies who’s equipment allow very little to get by them. The goalies of Howe’s era look like they couldn’t stop a beach ball.
Congrats Alex, well worked for and deserved
FANS ARE QUITE LOL
I'm sure when he showed his kids the mini sticks, he said "Now listen boys, you can't play with these sticks." Also, the Gordie Howe game-used stick was pretty cool, but something tells me his wife was thinking "Great… ANOTHER stick!" (Ovi's said she doesn't like his stick collection.)
Саша – легенда! Спасибо за твой труд. Организация великолепная. И НХЛ и Вашингтон круто постарались, невероятно приятно смотреть.
Beautiful 💯💯💯
Russians banned in every sport including the olyimpics but not the NHL; I guess the NHL does not love UKRAINE.
Incredible player…incredible accomplishment! Congratulations OVI!!!
The goat
умеют же… 😊
I don’t think Ovie liked the “babes” part. Some things are best left unsaid.
Awesome.
Gretzky was so dominant, there is now a prize for second place.
They couldn’t get his brother at least a real jersey?
His children will pass him? 😂
He beat Gordie by about 10 less seasons
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: 819 goals x 1.32 = 1081 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.
GOAT
the best goal scorer to ever live
Ovechkin would already be knocking on Gretzky's door right now if it wasn't for NHL lockouts and the pandemic. That's a fact.
mini Ovis are ready to score
As a Habs Fan, congrats AO!