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OVECHKIN PASSES LEMIEUX, NOW EIGHT GOALS SHY OF 700 Alex Ovechkin scored his second hat trick in as many games and tallied his third straight multi- outing – a first in his NHL career – to record the 690th, 691st and 692nd regular- goals of his NHL career. That propelled Ovechkin ahead of (690) and into a tie with (692) for ninth place on the NHL’s all-time goals list.

* The Capitals has scored hat tricks in consecutive games for the third time in his career, with each instance coming since his 32nd birthday (also Oct. 5-7, 2017 and Dec. 11-14, 2018).

* Ovechkin (34 years, 123 days) is one of three players in NHL history – and just the second in the past 98 years – to record consecutive hat tricks three times in his career. He joins (3x), the NHL’s all-time goals leader with 894, and (4x), widely known as one of the first pure goal-scorers in League history. Both Malone (31 years, 327 days) Gretzky (23 years, 28 days) recorded their last such instances at a younger age than Ovechkin.

* Ovechkin sits eight goals shy of becoming the eighth member of the NHL’s 700-goal club. He will need to overtake two more Hall of Fame members on his way to the illustrious group.

* Ovechkin is on pace to go from 600 to 700 goals in only 157 games, which would mark the fewest games to make that leap for any member of the 700-goal club. It also would be the second-fewest games to get from one 100-goal milestone to another in his career.

* The fewest contests Ovechkin has needed to score any collection of 100 goals is 126 games – after tallying his 124th career goal Dec. 27, 2007, he netted his 224th goal Oct. 6, 2009.

* With multiple goals in three straight games and hat tricks in each of his last two, Ovechkin now is on track to reach the 700-goal mark in only 1,146 career games – which would be the second-fastest in League history. Wayne Gretzky (886 GP) and (1,157 GP) are the only players to hit the milestone in fewer than 1,200 games.

* Ovechkin has averaged 0.61 goals-per-game to this in his career – to rank fifth in NHL history (min. 300 GP) – including a League-best 0.58 rate since celebrating his 30th birthday on Sept. 17, 2015. Among players in the 700-goal club, only two scored at a rate of 0.50 G/GP or higher from age 30 onward.

By the Numbers: Alex Ovechkin’s Road to 700 NHL Goals A look at some of the numbers behind the highest-scoring left wing and Russian in NHL history:

5,458 Shots on goal by Alex Ovechkin to date; only (6,209) and Jaromir Jagr (5,637) have more since the League began tracking in 1959-60.

5,219 Days from his first NHL goal (Oct. 5, 2005) to his 685th NHL goal (Jan. 18, 2020).

430 Even-strength goals by Alex Ovechkin, 11th-most in NHL history.

258 Power-play goals by Alex Ovechkin to date; only Dave Andreychuk (274) and Brett Hull (265) have more since the League began tracking in 1933-34.

258 Assists by Nicklas Backstrom on regular-season goals by Alex Ovechkin. Only three players in NHL history have set up a teammate more: Wayne Gretzky (364; ), (310; ) and (280; Daniel Sedin).

238 Go-ahead goals by Alex Ovechkin, the third-most in NHL history behind Brett Hull (264) and (262).

75 Tiebreaking goals by Alex Ovechkin that have stood as the game-winner; tied with Jaromir Jagr (75) for the most such goals in NHL history.

280 The fewest games played required for any 200-goal span of Alex Ovechkin’s career – he scored career goals 61 to 261 from Nov. 6, 2006 to Feb. 7, 2010. Once Ovechkin passes (694) with goal 695, he will need 200 goals to overtake Wayne Gretzky (894).

217 Times Alex Ovechkin has scored Washington’s first goal of a game, the fifth-most such goals in NHL history (he has given the Capitals a 1-0 lead 119 times).

140 Different Alex Ovechkin has scored against during the regular season.

124 Tying goals by Alex Ovechkin, the third-most by a player at the time of his 692nd career goal behind Dave Andreychuk (137) and (132).

109 Game-winning goals by Alex Ovechkin, tied for sixth place in NHL history.

93 Different players to record an assist on an Alex Ovechkin goal during the regular season (Top 3: Nicklas Backstrom: 258; John Carlson: 110; Mike Green: 70).

48 Goals by Alex Ovechkin against the Lightning, his highest total against one franchise during the regular season (Top 5: TBL: 48, WPG/ATL: 47, CAR: 43, TOR: 41, NYI: 39; FLA: 39).

29 Age, in years, of Wayne Gretzky when he scored his 700th regular-season goal. He is the only player to reach the milestone before age 36.

23 goals by Alex Ovechkin during the regular season, the most in NHL history.

7 Most regular-season games against a goalie versus whom he has never scored a goal (0 G in 7 GP vs. Mike Condon and ).

5 Career regular-season goals scored by Alex Ovechkin against Pascal Leclaire – the against whom he scored his first NHL goal.

4 Shorthanded goals scored by Alex Ovechkin, with his last coming more than 11 years ago against the (Jan. 3, 2009).

0.94 Alex Ovechkin’s career goals-per-game against the Wild, his best against one franchise.

ALEX OVECHKIN’S HIGHEST CAREER REGULAR-SEASON GOAL TOTALS VS. A GOALTENDER GOALIE GP G G/GP Marc-Andre Fleury 41 24 0.59 42 24 0.57 Kari Lehtonen 27 22 0.81 26 21 0.81 Ryan Miller 34 19 0.56 41 19 0.46 Ondrej Pavelec 31 18 0.58 Sergei Bobrovsky 26 13 0.50 Devan Dubnyk 9 12 1.33 Ben Bishop 13 10 0.77 Craig Anderson 19 10 0.53 Jaroslav Halak 23 10 0.43

MOST CAREER MULTI-GOAL GAMES, NHL HISTORY MULTI-GOAL PLAYER GAMES TEAM Wayne Gretzky 189 EDM, LAK, STL, NYR Brett Hull 158 CGY, STL, DAL, DET Mario Lemieux 154 PIT 147 DET, HFD 143 CHI, BOS, NYR Alex Ovechkin 141 WSH 139 DET, LAK, NYR

MOST CAREER HAT TRICKS, NHL HISTORY HAT PLAYER TRICKS TEAM(S) Wayne Gretzky 50 EDM, LAK, NYR Mario Lemieux 40 PIT Mike Bossy 39 NYI Brett Hull 33 CGY, STL, DAL, DET Phil Esposito 32 BOS, NYR Marcel Dionne 28 DET, LAK 28 CHI 26 MTL Alex Ovechkin 26 WSH Cy Denneny 25 SEN (1917)

Milestone Goals: Alex Ovechkin A look at regular-season milestone goals through Alex Ovechkin’s NHL career.

CAREER GOAL 100 200 300 400 500 600 CAREER GP 167 296 473 634 801 990

100 GOAL SEGMENTS (GP) 167 130 178 162 168 190 FEWEST GP TO GOAL # (NHL RANK) 23rd 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th

SEASON 2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2013-14 2015-16 2017-18 DATE 10/12/2007 2/5/2009 4/5/2011 12/20/2013 1/10/2016 3/12/2018 Nicklas ASSIST 1 Mike Green -- Brooks Laich Backstrom Jason Chimera Tom Wilson Andre Evgeny ASSIST 2 Tom Poti -- Martin Erat Burakovsky Kuznetsov OPPONENT NYR LAK TOR CAR OTT WPG Henrik Jonathan James Andrew Connor GOALIE Lundqvist Quick Reimer ENG Hammond Hellebuyck SCORE AT MILESTONE Tied 1-1 4-3 LAK Tied 1-1 4-2 WSH 5-1 WSH 2-1 WSH PPG? Yes No Yes No Yes No GWG? No No No No No No

Milestone Goals: Members of the NHL’s 700-Goal Club A look at when each member of the NHL’s 700-goal club hit their regular-season milestone goals, organized by their rank on the all-time goals list.

Red denotes those who reached that milestone in fewer games or at a younger age than Alex Ovechkin.

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 CAREER Wayne GP 145 GP 242 GP 350 GP 436 GP 575 GP 718 GP 886 GP Gretzky AGE 20y, 40d 21y, 256d 22y, 321d 23y, 353d 25y, 300d 27y, 302d 29y, 342d DATE 3/7/1981 10/9/1982 12/13/1983 1/13/1985 11/22/1986 11/23/1988 1/3/1991

CAREER GP 283 GP 422 GP 624 GP 805 GP 1,045 GP 1,274 GP 1,493 GP Gordie Howe AGE 22y, 323d 24y, 321d 27y, 313d 30y, 257d 33y, 348d 37y, 241d 40y, 248d DATE 2/17/1951 2/15/1953 2/7/1956 12/13/1958 3/14/1962 11/27/1965 12/4/1968

CAREER GP 245 GP 412 GP 580 GP 742 GP 928 GP 1,130 GP 1,452 GP Jaromir Jagr AGE 21y, 261d 23y, 357d 26y, 59d 28y, 272d 30y, 354d 34y, 277d 42y, 14d DATE 11/3/1993 2/7/1996 4/15/1998 11/13/2000 2/4/2003 11/19/2006 3/1/2014

CAREER GP 181 GP 280 GP 377 GP 520 GP 693 GP 900 GP 1,157 GP Brett Hull AGE 25y, 131d 26y, 179d 27y, 247d 29y, 204d 32y, 135d 35y, 144d 38y, 185d DATE 12/18/1989 2/4/1991 4/12/1992 3/1/1994 12/22/1996 12/31/1999 2/10/2003

CAREER Marcel GP 250 GP 426 GP 582 GP 724 GP 887 GP 1,033 GP 1,255 GP Dionne AGE 23y, 117d 25y, 147d 27y, 163d 29y, 123d 31y, 133d 33y, 134d 36y, 89d DATE 11/28/1974 12/28/1976 1/13/1979 12/4/1980 12/14/1982 12/15/1984 10/31/1987

CAREER GP 285 GP 457 GP 564 GP 692 GP 803 GP 1,014 GP 1,214 GP Phil Esposito AGE 25y, 348d 28y, 40d 29y, 295d 31y, 232d 32y, 305d 35y, 257d 37y, 347d DATE 2/3/1968 4/1/1970 12/12/1971 10/10/1973 12/22/1974 11/4/1977 2/2/1980

CAREER GP 195 GP 395 GP 594 GP 762 GP 936 GP 1,125 GP 1,390 GP AGE 22y, 65d 24y, 357d 27y, 91d 29y, 138d 31y, 350d 34y, 58d 38y, 46d

DATE 1/2/1982 10/20/1984 1/28/1987 3/16/1989 10/14/1991 12/26/1993 12/14/1997

CAREER Alex GP 167 GP 296 GP 473 GP 634 GP 801 GP 990 GP TBD Ovechkin AGE 22y, 25d 23y, 141d 25y, 200d 28y, 94d 30y, 115d 32y, 176d DATE 10/12/2007 2/5/2009 4/5/2011 12/20/2013 1/10/2016 3/12/2018