Last Wednesday night, Alex Ovechkin gave Washington Capitals fans something of a pre-Thanksgiving feast, a hat trick against the St. Louis Blues in a 4-3 win. It was the 16th regular season hat trick of Ovcechkin’s career, a total that is almost equal to the total number of hat tricks scored by other Capitals since Ovechkin came into the league in 2005-06 (17).
A total of 51 goals – almost 10 percent of Ovechkin’s career total of 537 goals – have been scored in those 16 games, each of them a Capitals win. Eight of the hat tricks were recorded on the road, and eight of them were recorded at Verizon Center, but all of them were special.