Alex Ovechkin is now officially the sole keeper of the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring title, having picked up his 895th goal, and if you weren’t sure…that is a lot of goals. Really a lot of goals. So many, in fact, that no one – not even Ovechkin himself – thought he could hit that number even a few years ago.
But with Ovechkin, it’s not just about the sheer number of goals he scored. It’s also the way he scored them, the exuberance and skill and pure “how the hell did he do that??”-ness of so many of his goals, that makes him special – and it’s why we, as Caps fans, are simply the luckiest fans in the league to have been treated to his talent for the last twenty years.