(Caps Outsider)
Caps captain Alex Ovechkin, who recently signed a five-year contract to remain with the Capitals, has played 1,197 career games. With five more seasons of Ovi to come, and several records to pursue, there’s one in particular that he can break that few are talking about: Nicklas Lidstrom’s 1,564 career games while only playing for one franchise, which he did in Detroit.
To break this record, Ovi must play 368 of the 410 regular season games in the next five years, assuming all returns to normal after the past two seasons, and that he doesn’t do something weird like sign another contract with a different team for one last hurrah.