What's WRONG with Alex Ovechkin?! 

thats exactly what I'm saying since he came back from this break. Love the guy, but I dont think he'll get it.

Makes alot of sense actually, I'm sure that besides his loss, he very much wanted for his father to see him break the record. I hope he can still do it .....for his dad.

Marty St Louis scored a game winning goal on the night of his mother's death.

​@@tommargarites2811 preach :.(

Brock Boeser went through a similar slump in goal production both leading up to and after his fathers death from dementia/cancer in 2022. He looks like a completely different player this season and is currently second in the league for goals scored. Losing a parent is unbearably difficult, and I hope Ovi is able to bounce back soon

wow you're one of the reasons why he isn't scoring.....Sending bad waves of energy, Shame on you.@StuMarston

Why greg is a legend yes but not a better goal scorer than ovi

​@@karigrandiiGreg is amazing.

Ovi is the best goal scorer to ever live, 99 has countless other records Ovi deserves this one, and he will get it, in 2 or 3 seasons, he will get it done, and he will be deserving of it

@Enonymous99 lol why does he "deserve" it? if he breaks the record he breaks the record.

I have been saying that for years. I am not a caps fan but really admire Backstrome as a player. Very unselfish and doing the hard work of setting up the plays every game. He is the reason why Ovi has about 33% of his goals.

@@patrickthomas2119 100%

Это точно.👍

And overrated his stats are.

There is always a great Player behind a legend. Backstrom for Ovechkin, Malkin for Crosby, Kurri for Gretzky, and Jagr for Lemieux.

You're definitely right, Backstrom has been instrumental in Ovi's success throughout his career. He's what I was referring to when I mentioned Ovi missing a "pass first" center, but I didn't refer to him by name which I probably should have!

Look up Backstrom's stats over his career vs in the last three seasons, then look at Ovie. Ovechkin essentially hasn't had Backstrom with him for the previous two seasons on top of this one, and yet his goal-scoring was more-or-less unaffected. I love a solid player like Backstrom, but it just doesn't seem to be the case that he's integral to Ovechkin's scoring rates.

Tell him again

He’s not skating

i noticed last year that he doesn't skate.

backstrom being gone is massive lost to the team

do you realize how much $$$ betting bookers would lose if he get pass Gretzky,that should answer your questionning

@@TheBillaro Lemieux was doing a lot of "coasting" too, and would get insane stats, like Ovie when he was older and after all the health issues he dealt with...but I guess that can only stand for so long.

charismatic personality you mean him being a fascist?

Great player but horrible human.

@@91tonttu Why? Because you see him in a photo with Putin on his insta page?

In olympic games his play was horrible. To be honest, His is not a player who makes difference

@@Ttt-xn4lm I aggree, that his olympics performance is not great at all. But, who cares really about the olympics? You wanna win the Stanley Cup, right?

​@@McLovinBoo8iesNot only that but they played less games back then per season. Also they only played 5 games in the playoffs against each other until the SCF where it was a 7 game series.

Yes sir. Calgary flames bruised Gary suter nearly crippled Gretzky!!! On a side note, imagine Gretzky playin in todays nhl, with todays sticks and training regime

@@schrempskynate8944He played the bloated 84 games schedule years, and the current 82 games for six years. He missed out on a grand total of 16 scheduled games over his 21 season career vs playing the current season length. . The 894 goal record Ovi is chasing is a regular season record, so playoff duration is not relevant. If anything, the shorter playoffs saved some wear and tear on the body (Though Gretzky played 60+ more playoff games anyway.)

@RS-lq6zm They also had the two line pass rule, which really slowed down the play, and you could water-ski hook onto a player, and rarely get called.

Gretzky was a great player because he was smarter than everyone else. Ovechkin was a great player because of his physical skills. Very different.

Don’t disagree. Just think Gretzky will never be passed.

Very true Ovy is only a one timer machine Gretzky was great in so many ways these two are not close to same caliber of player

You for sure are someone who hasn't watched Ovi over the years aside from the games he played vs your team. The guy has scored so many snapshop rush goals, snapshots off a faceoff win, drives to the net and obviously his one timers. He has 675 assists and is an underrated passer, he averaged 50 assists/year while putting up the amount of goals his did his first 5 years in the league. He is the ultimate team player and used his physicality, speed and ability to be in position to reach the numbers he has and pretty much every season was the guy who would drag the team kicking and screaming to win, he would lead. You're looking at the last 5 years and using that as his whole career. Watch some of his compilations from his earlier years and it becomes much more obvious how he isn't "A one trick pony". Older generations don't want to see a record of the great one broken, but lets be honest, the overall skill level of guys on the ice during those eras were not the same, the goalies skill levels and size and pads were smaller, it would be insane for someone to break most of the points.

Hope he breaks it and you all cry cause Gretzky’s a big bitch

If you counted WHA then Ovi would be chasing Gordie Howe’s 975 goals

It has nothing to do with age as the end of last season was not that long ago. Ovi didn’t all of a sudden get old. I said two years ago Ovi would only break the record IF the NHL allows him to. Gretzky is their GOAT.

bettman and the nhl do want him too and even gretzky himself @@rhaltunen

Gretzky had greats around him his whole career too in a less talented league

@@hugh2hoob668- not in 1981/82 when he out-scored Kurri, Coffey, and Messier by 124+ points each. Gretzky beat all of their point totals (86-89 points each) with his 92 GOALS alone lol. And threw on 120 assists on top of that almost as an afterthought.

@@604dot - Ok, so let me understand this: Today’s 13 and 14 year old kids could have broken all of Gretzky’s 61 NHL records back then, but Mario Lemieux and Mark Messier and Mike Bossy and Steve Yzerman couldn’t?

@@604dotyou simply cannot compare generations. Of course the game was slower then, it was 40 years ago! You can only legitimately compare players within their era, and Gretzky’s talent level back then was light years ahead. It’s like looking at Connor McDavid’s highlight reel 35 years from now and saying he’s slower and not as agile as players in 2058. Things SHOULD get better over time, that’s progress!

Gretzky played with a herniated disc in his back for several years. Take that away and he's mich closer to 1000 goals. Too bad.

Well the goalies didn't butterfly back then. If you put guys like Ovi and Matthews against this goalies it would be at least 100 goals a season, granted the equipment was different then buy guys nowadays are just a different breed. Wayne wouldn't do much in today's NHL.

That's the same criticism Gretzky dealt with from age 5 and he proved them ALL wrong. Bogus comment@@vedantbhalla2571

Except that he’s still on pace for 15 this year. He won’t get better as he gets older.

@@RS-lq6zmOn pace for 30🤯

You don’t remember his aluminum stick?

@@ScaryRevenant yeah but it was still wooden blade

@@ScaryRevenant he scored less with that EASTON on LA

Yeah but the ancient goalies were how do you say..... subpar.

@@AndrewDW44 better than this garbage today pal 9 goals per game

Buddy...that is hockey Wisdom. I never heard 89 say that.....very cool

@@good2goskee ah memories, what a skater

@ragimundvonwallat8961 He was a FANTASTIC player. When the Nucks grabbed Mogilny coupled with Burè, I thought that we were going to blow away all oncomers. Chemistry is everything, and it just did not work out as intended.

Mogilny was a sniper but was relatively unimpressive at making plays. Not really apples to apples.

​@@good2goskeeI'll never forget that one Canucks game where the announcer said "Look at this power-play unit! Messier! Mogilny! Bure! Linden! HOW is this the worst power-play in the league?!?!?"

Yes, I think we file that one under “Duh”. 😂 Ovi’s not even the points leader among current players. Sid’s +35 and 2 years younger. Ovi will be fortunate to get to #10. Sid to about #8 - maybe he’ll retire when he ties Mario (with 50% more games).

>Pittsburgh isn't good. LULW They are badly coached, yes. Considering the team they have this year, playoffs HAVE to happen, not miss em by 1 point like last year (and lose at their last game when they could have climbed up that difference).

30😮

it's not comparable at all Gretzky's goals are maybe 1/10th of todays quality. It was a lake hockey back then. Goalies were shit, their equipment was shit, everyshot=goal, Gretzky had maybe 40minutes ice time due to slow, easy going games. The fact that Ovechkhin is closing on the record shows you that he is next level talent, assists are irrelevant, because it is never accurate and mostly faked.

Gretzy would not even get half of his goals if he was a modern player in todays age. Ovy is significantly better. You all dont even factor in human progress and trajectory due to peoples weird rose glasses looking at the past as if it was better. Ovy is the greatest goal scorer of all time. In Gretzkys time, people were smoking a pack of cigarettes before the games. Average life expectancy was 50 years old. Most of the NHL players were doing other gigs working part time. Now its a full on professional psycho fitness and skill fest fueled by ground breaking technology and vast amount of roids and peptides.

@@UlassG love how you guys contradict yourselves over and over. If everything is so much better, why arent those records being broken??...i mean not even close. And they even took out the center red line!!...thats like changing to only 5 yards for a first down. Gretzky and the Oilers changed the way the game was played. For years, they said you couldnt win the Stanley Cup WITH A WIDE OPEN , OFFENSIVE style of play. They played and looked like a European team. After they won, almost all the other teams started copying them, which led to the greatest 10-15 years of hockey ever played. You had to be a spectacular, "break away" goalie because the other teams were gonna get chances galore too. Now all these players do is dump and chase, trying to break the "trap" that all teams play. All the teams look the same and play the same way. now....and its a boring, stupid looking game now. Almost every game is 2-1..3-2..or 4-3. And again, thats after all these goofy, weird rule changes...trapezoids, 3 line passes...shoot outs. And my personal favorite, you lose the game in over time, but you still get a point!!.....oooooooo k. So stupid..

most prolific yes,greatest he would himself say otherwise

@ulassG What an insanely stupid take. Ovi has one job and only one job: scoring goals. You don't want to talk about assists because Gretzky makes everyone else look bad but in a comparison with Ovi he makes Ovi look pathetic. Gretzky could have stopped counting assists after 6 seasons and would still be ahead of Ovi. Ovi doesn't play defense and is a major liability to his team in that regard. He ranks in the bottom 1-3% in the league on defense. So he is cherrypicking, only looking to shoot, gets all power play time and STILL can't catch Gretzky when it is Ovi's only function.

@Nobody30083 He's just a very selfish player who only thinks about himself. He's so desperate to break the record that he bangs his stick on the ice just to get an empty netter. He's so talented though

@Nobody30083 He's been doing it for the past few years. If you ever see highlights of the Caps where him or someone else scores an empty netter then check out the game highlights. He's most likely doing it

you clearly don't know ovi. He is one of the classiest guys ever and he makes players around him be better look at backstrom, kuznetsov, wilson, carlson, strome, etc and he does a lot for his community off the ice. And even on the ice he is jsut as happy when teammates score and succeed not just his own. Calling him selfish is the most braindead take ever girlfriend maybe you outta try watching him more before speaking@@adriankalitka3762

@@adriankalitka3762😂🤡

I think Mike just decided to take Chrise's car keys mid season to keep him from showing up..

easy to have assist and goal when goalies always stay up...with little pad and little goalies equipment.... with very slow hockey game level if we compare the equipment, goalies skills and fast game play that we have today.... ovy is a way far better at my eyes, just because of that..... go watch an old hokey game, and imagine alex play on those game.... we would not be here talk about gretzky as the great one. and im not a fan of ovy....

@@bwcfrenchie So by your logic…. all the greats like Howe, Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr etc aren’t as skilled as Ovi? 🤦🏻 It was a different time. You compare greatness to how they played at the time of competition and the averages around the league in the era. Gretzky was a special player. Ovi is as well. 1,963 assists to Ovi’s 679 is staggering and should not be taken lightly. Regardless, you lack courtesy and common sense trying to diminish a legendary athlete while you take photos of yourself on a couch. I can smell the alcohol and cigarettes on you from here you. 🤢

​@@bwcfrenchie 80% save rate at that time says a lot. 😂

He’s a trigger man. They need an elite setup man. I think you’re off base man.

Ovechkin is a puck hog goals are everything look at Gretzkys assists imagine if Gretzky was a puck hog but his assists will never be. Broken either. He is not even close

Then why does Backstrome own close to 33% of assists on Ovi’s goals? Do you have any idea what an insane number that is?

@@patrickthomas2119 How did Ovechkin do last year without Backstrom for the first 42 games of the season? HINT: He didn't miss Backstrom in the least.

@@jfkst1 well Strome is not Backstrome but he was good enough to set up near 20 of Ovi’s 42. How is he doing with out strome Oshi or Backstrome? Oh that’s right 5 goals on 27 games. Ovi fans. The Lebron fans of the NHL.

such a brainless take. Not only ovi is a big time shooter but hes also one of the most physical players too and it shouldn't matter on what your style of play is like its about talent and how many goals you can put up i mean you can't just stop him from scoring its not football

43 to go😮

His whole career has been about padding his stats. That is why he has such little success in the playoffs. That is why I don’t want to see him break the record.

He's 38 years old. Most hockey players don't make it to 38 years old. 38 is not old in life, but in the hockey world, it is. When hockey players play this long, their scoring production drops quite considerably.

it is a team game one guy isn't gonna bring success whether it is the regular season or playoffs. He is far more than scoring maybe try turning your brain on or say what is real not by personal opinions like a butthurt hater @@patrickthomas2119

At least he had to ultimate privilege of seeing his son win the hardest sports championship on the planet!

yesssssirrrrr thats exactly what I'm sayin @@KishorTwist

I think the situation in his country bothers him a lot too, he is, like most Russian players who succeed in the NHL, pro-Russia as an European country that got along with rest of the world, I know that not any kind of money would not make me happy if I was a pro athlete overseas and my country suddenly did something really stupid and now you hear about cousins and such dying on the front (not saying he has family dead from the war, but he surely has family in there). Place that on top of your father dying,as one of the most popular Russian person in North America, it must be something psychologically to deal with.

yesss absolutely. He clearly said he wants no war and peace instead and even tried to take down his instagram profile pic but was stopped with a warning that putin could take vindictive actions towards him if he proceeded and even after this he STILL gets backlash from other fans and media. It is ridiculous to ridicule him simply cause of his nationality along with ONE social media profile picture. Victim blaming him simply cause of those things is a perfect example of why our society is so toxic now. People always jump to conclusions and they neglect to actually educate themselves on the subject before making comments. Ofc these athletes have thick skin but I am sure the more it goes on the more taxing it is on their mental state. People should know that politics aren't everything in this world. Family and friends are what is most important NOT politics am I right?@@severed111

he needs 16.5 goals a season for 4 seasons to tie it that is completely doable barring career ending injury.

@@toddpick8007Ovie is getting so slow. I highly doubt he is gonna play until 42.

Посмотрите на Ягра В 40 лет.

@@toddpick8007 he won't play 4 seasons. If he doesn't reach at least 25 this season, it's over.

@@djknox2 Whats your basis for that? dude is just gonna rock league min and play until 45.

He’s on pace for 15. He won’t get younger.

Wait trueb

That's a great point. It's tough not to consider the what-if's when it comes to the lockouts. He probably lost 70-80 goals to those and the pandemic alone realistically.

Gretzky had a lockout too.

@@CunuckHockey real

@@peterolbrisch8970 didn’t have a vivid pandemic

If Hank Aaron didn’t hit all those home runs, there’d be no discussion of Ruth vs. Aaron as home run king… 🤨

I hope he doesn’t break it. That record needs to stay with a Canadian…it’s only fitting

...he needs like 20 goals a year for 3 years to break it it's very likely he can manage that

The Covid break didn't help out much either. It's painful, but I agree with benching him until he can get back to somewhat of a decent speed. Crosby has never been the fastest, but he adapts. This is sink or swim. If Ovi isn't quick to adapt. He will be more remembered for coming close and fizzling out rather than just coming close. Good luck, Ovi.

@@RU-vidHarborsLUNATICS nah his Putin loving nature and hoping to see them conquer Ukraine is coming back to bite him in his old age. Just for that I hope he doesn't break Wayne's record

​@TS-ew5sm no it should be with the player who earns it. It is Gretzky's for now and maybe forever. But it's because he EARNED it. Not because he is Canadian.

Even if Ovi were to catch Gretzky with goals (i doubt he will), he would still not come close to Gretzky's greatness.... #99 would be #2 in Goals in a league that is over 100 years old #1 in assists #1 in points #1 in significant NHL records.

Ya #2 means you the first loser smh

That’s a stupid fucking thing to say. If he breaks the record, that’s a monumental achievement. Anyone that downplays it clearly has an axe to grind.

absolutely i mean ofc gretzky will always be the best all around but ovi is a different level in a goal scoring perspective and physicality given that hes played in a much harder era @@30AndHatingIt

If you're not first, you're last

Ron Francis never gets the love he deserves. Most consistent player throughout his entire career.

Teemu Selanne

In per game scoring he’s 8th. Fun fact.

Gretzky is still, to this day, the best player. If he played in today's league, he would still be the greatest. What is interesting about Gretzky is the fact that he wasn't the fastest or best skater, he didn't have the hardest shot, he didn't hard or hit at all, and he wasn't the best stickhandler/dangler. He was arguably not the best in any single skills category, but his complete game was and to this day is unmatched. He was hardly ever injured because he always had his head up and was difficult to hit, players that tried described him as being frustrating because they would roll off him against the boards. His ability to anticipate where the puck would be going was better than anybody's, he was able to look ahead and anticipate like a chess player. He knew where other players would be which allowed him to make great passes. He was just always in the right spot. Best hockey player to ever live.

Gretzky scored on fat goalies that couldn't touch their toes and tried to stop pucks while standing straight up

@@Dorian803Everyone else in the league were playing against the same goalies and not putting up the same numbers.

@@TheMightyOdin most players back then were pretty mid

and Ovi scored all those goals when goaltenders were padded up more than the michelin man and were more flexible/athletic/mobile. Apples, Oranges, Hand grenades

same tbh

He didn't miss Backstrom last season when Backstrom was gone for half the season.

Even the lover was afraid all summer in some bunker. Ovie seems to miss her fiancé, who doesn't dare to come out of the bunker.

Only 49 left now🤯

He's one goal away from 30!😮

Wrong. Backstrom missed the first 42 games of last season. Ovechkin had 29 goals in those games good for 3rd in the league.

True but Ovi did 17 points this year only one short of Strome and Wilson

not so sure how great of a record that is...

10 million dollars a year for 10 goals wont work for any front office

The same logic could be applied to Mario Lemieux. He played 4 fewer seasons than Gretzky and averaged roughly 16 fewer games per season when their careers are compared.

Ovi actually has missed 100 goals because lock outs

@@SombraPiloto However Lemieux had health issues that kept him from playing and also hindered him when he played. Ovy had nothing, he was perfectly healthy.

Ови забивает отовсюду и по разному. Его гол был признан лучшим голом столетия. Так что не фантазируйте

Only 49 now🤯

@@GreekboyyD 😱🥺

@@dyingfromthelying Just scored another two.😱

@@GreekboyyD DOH!

I always love the fact that if he hadn't scored a single goal in his career, Gretzky would still be the all time points leader.

You can break it if you put McDavid with Kucherov on the same line.

@@FilterBySubgenre If Lemieux, Jagr and Stevens could not do it in the 90ties, it is unlikely any other combo will. Plus, the goaltending today on average is better than it was a few decades ago IMO.

He scored alot of goals but as a pure goal scorer great one is not and never has been the best.he used alot of tricks which mean he is the greatest magician as a goal scorer but not the best pure goal scorer.several are better at scoring goals.none are better at getting points!!!

Lemeiux,both hulls,ovie and a few others are better goal scorers

easier lmao, you mean easier back when goalies were standing most of the time barely goalkeeping?

30+ again this season

ovi is pretty classy and humble too but you're just too ignorant to notice

@ethanparker7900 and you're not biased? That's where ignorance come from.

Much appreciated!

ovi did too he single handedly brought the capitals back into relevancy i mean he said it himself he and crosby saved the nhl after the nhl was in a tricky spot with the 04-05 lockout. Stop being a hater and actually appreciate greatness cause it doesn't go on forever. Gretzky himself even said this. Be more classy like Gretzky not some selfish internet troll

Bernie Nicholls got 150! Then traded again and back to his normal pace lol

Gretzky looked trashy to compared Mario Lemeuix.

@@jp6614 stop it …. Mario was on injured reserve half his career with a back injury.

No he won't. He looks done. If it takes him more games than it took Gretzky that will be lame.

why does that matter? every goal counts no matter how long it takes@@peterolbrisch8970

@@peterolbrisch8970Bad take. 😂🤡

or you can keep crying like a wittle baby cause he will eventually. Either cope or cry

@ethanparker7900 no he not that great . He be lucky to score 50 goals by the end of his career and yes I see u cry like a little girl when he fails b i t c h

i see you crying like a wittle girl cause i bet if he was on your team you wouldn't be saying this. This is cancel culture at its finest cause the truth is he is absolutely great. This is a type of player who we'll prolly never see again once it is over and seeing greatness get taken for granted is just delusional. He will eventually whether you like it or not so you keep crying if you want to little man and keep doing so after he DOES break it eventually @@davidfletcher4622