Tracking Ovechkin's chase for 894
How many goals does The Gr8 have, and when will he break The Great One's NHL record?
April 4 Update: Ovechkin scored goal number 894 against the Blackhawks on Friday night. He did it in one fewer games than Wayne Gretzky.
What game is he most likely to tie and break the record?1
I’ve been tracking Alex Ovechkin’s chase for 894 career goals — the all-time NHL record held by Wayne Gretzky since 1999, and modeling out the game in which he’s most likely to break the record this season. If you want to look at the data yourself check out the Google Sheets model here.
I also wrote a more in depth piece a couple weeks ago putting Ovi’s chase of the record into historical context here.
Follow along on this page as Ovechkin chases history.
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The data will be updated once Hockey Reference’s data tables are updated upstream.