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Alex Ovechkin scored No. 894 ‘in theater and in style.’ His next goal will be even grander

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By Sean Gentille

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April 5, 2025Updated 11:32 am UTC

WASHINGTON — Sometime soon — Sunday maybe, perhaps Thursday — Alex Ovechkin will reach the summit.

In a career jammed with consequential goals, none will be remembered more than the next one. We’ll talk about it then, and we’ll do it in the grandest of terms, because that’s how it all works.

To say he’s chasing immortality, whole cloth, would be incorrect; that’s a fish he caught long ago. He is, though, still chasing something. The biggest record in his sport.