This was inevitable. With six shots on goal against Ottawa on Thursday, Alex Ovechkin passed longtime Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque in career shots on goal. (Bourque played more than 300 more games than Ovechkin.)
Bourque’s record had been 6,209 shots, so Ovi is now two better with 6,211.
Ovi has other shot records, including ones that no one cares about, such as missed shots (he’s currently more than 1,000 more than Jeff Carter), ‘missed shots wide’ and most posts hit. There’s a caveat to this: The NHL hasn’t always kept statistics on this stuff, so some of these ‘records’ don’t include folks like Gordie Howe, Rocket Richard and Bobby Hull.