Alex Ovechkin’s All-Time NHL Goals Countdown
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin became the 8th player in NHL history to score 700 career regular season goals. This will be updated every time he passes another player on the list.
 894 - Wayne Gretzky |  801 - Gordie Howe |  766 - Jaromir Jagr |
 741 - Brett Hull |  731 - Marcel Dionne |  717 - Phil Esposito |
 712 - Alex Ovechkin |  708 - Mike Gartner |  694 - Mark Messier |
 692 - Steve Yzerman |  690 - Mario Lemieux |  684 - Teemu Selanne |
 668 - Luc Robitaille |  656 - Brendan Shanahan |  640 - Dave Andreychuk |
 625 - Joe Sakic |  625 - Jerome Iginla |  610 - Bobby Hull |
 608 - Dino Ciccarelli |  601 - Jari Kurri |  577 - Mark Recchi |
Keep an eye out for a Zdeno Chara Caps bobblehead!
Interesting if you followed this story: The hockey dad who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2002 at a Reading, Mass. pick-up hockey game, and released in 2010, died this past December. I looked it up because I was curious if he was still in prison.
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Backstrom on not yet getting his 700th assist: "I think it's the media that's actually jinxining - jinxing - stuff this weekend."
Carlson's back made the save of the game.