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Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin, who scored his 275th power play goal, which is tops all time. He passed Dave Andreychuk, who played 409 more games – about five full seasons – more than Ovi did.
The record-setting goal wasn’t so obvious, though, as the puck went in as the power play was expiring. At first it seemed like a power play goal, then it didn’t, but the official scorekeeper determined it was a power play goal, then it wasn’t, and then it was.
This also shows how certain stats can be misleading, as the Caps’ power play has been awful lately, and a goal even a fraction of a second after the power play expired would have been another ‘failed’ power play even though the scenario played out the same.