With the NHL starting up soon with a 56-game season, our hero, Alex Ovechkin, has shown that 56 games is plenty to set a mark in his favorite statistical category: Goals.
There are any number of ways to predict the number of goals he’ll score but we’ll do it by checking on what he did the past two seasons. That’s as good a measurement as any, especially since statistical drop-offs by age don’t really happen with this guy.
Last season, despite the premature ending, he scored 48 goals in 68 games, on pace for about 58 goals had he played all 82 games – higher than his average as of late.