In 2024 Alexander Ovechkin became the 60th player of the NHL to achieve 700 assists during his 20 year career. This was announced after the game between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights.
In hockey history Ovi has become the 6th player with more than 700 scores and more than 700 assists. Now he stands among Wayne Gretzky, Marcel Dionne, Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagr and Phil Esposito. Still, Ovechkin needs to do 1,263 more assists to beat Gretzky, who is known as the Great One. Even now he has the biggest number of assists in the entire hockey history.
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Let’s take a look at Ovi’s features and understand why he is a hockey star.
Short Biography
Alexander Ovechkin was born in 1985 in Russia, in a family of athletes. His mother, Tatyana, is a 2-time Olympic gold medalist, and his father Mikhail is a former soccer player who achieved a lot too.
The athlete liked hockey since childhood and at the age 16 started to play with the Moscow Dynamo. After that only a year later he became the youngest player of the national team of Russia.
Ovechkin had an older brother who tragically died in a car crash. Since then Alex was eager to leave Russia and play in the NHL. That time his idol was Mario Lemieux, looking at him from posters and cards which young Ovi carefully collected.
In 2002 Oveckin performed in the World Championship in Slovakia with 14 goals in 8 games. As Ovi said in one of his interviews, hockey in the NHL is the best and he is ready to play here.
NHL Career
Ovechkin made his NHL debut in 2005 scoring 2 goals in just 4 minutes and pushed his opponent so hard that the glass partition was broken. He ended that season by winning the Calder Memorial Trophy.
The Russian hockey star boomed mostly by his slap snot. This fact made him one of the most popular and feared players in the NHL.
The season of 2007-2008 was one of the most productive for the player. During that period he scored 65 times, made 47 assists, and won the Hart trophy for the second time.
The year of 2018 is the most remembered by Ovi. He led the Capitals to the Stanley Cup. As Ovechkin commented after the match with the Vegas Golden Knights – his dream came true and this is the reason to play hockey, to work hard and share such significant moments with whom you love.
Ovi as a Hockey Star
Certainly, Ovechkin had failures and unsuccessful seasons. For example, right after the Stanley Cup, the Capitals couldn’t move beyond the 1 round of the playoffs 5 seasons in a row.
Many players and teams really fear him but certainly pay great respect to his skills.
Ovechkin can be named as the phenomenon of hockey history by his fascinating records, power goals, and overtime goals. He has an image of the opposition team in his mind and he seems to know every player’s position, because he is always there where the puck is going to occur.