And will likely SHATTER it at the rate he is going.
GO CAPS!!!
GREAT 8!!!
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he’s just awesome. one of the things i like about moving back to my hometown in Farmington MI was being in a hockey town, its my favorite sport behind baseball; just hard to follow down south. even when i lived in dallas the stars were #4 in pro sports coverage.
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Farmington is a nice place. Amazing it can be pretty out there and be so close to Detroit.
I’m a Red Wings fan. My daughter a Blues fan. She was nicknamed after them because she was born in St Louis.
Ovechkin is the Legend.
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Ovechkin is the Nolan Ryan of hockey.
He’ll likely play well into his 40s and put his new goal record well out of reach.
Wayne Gretzky record might be beaten but so what? Ovechkin is a great player but he does not even come close to Wayne.
Gretzky’s record:
Maurice Richard might be the only player comparable to Wayne. He changed the game by himself. He played in an era when players were treated like cattle. Owners enslaved their players.
Safety? When Richard played there was none.
Gretzky, Richard, Howe are IMO the best that ever played.
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No question Gretzky was a better passer.
But Ovi will soon eclipse him as a scorer.
Also……Gretzky wasn’t a physical player; he always had to be paired on the ice, throughout his career, with more physical players who would keep the defenders off him.
Ovi….at 6’3” and 240 lbs, is a far more physically imposing presence. He needs no enforcers to help him out. He IS his own enforcer.
I honestly think if Gretzky stays in Edmonton or goes to a real hockey franchise instead of chasing the Hollywood lights, he has over 1000 goals for his career.
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Not so sure.
His longevity wasn’t great.
He retired at age 38 and didn’t do much that last season. His last six seasons he had 25 or fewer goals in each, including single digit goals in a few of them.
Doubt he would have had the longevity, even had he stayed with Edmonton, to reach 1000. He wasn’t very productive from his mid 30s on.
Ovi, by contrast, has over 40 goals at age 39.
If he plays into his 40s, he’ll set a virtually unbreakable goals record.
Just scored 895 versus the Islanders.
Watched it!
Now he can go for 1000!!!
To your point, he’s also on pace to be the all-time leader in hits in NHL history.
That combination is insane.
I hated him early (Pens fan since ‘84), but the last few years, he’s really grown on me. A hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Really?
Ovechkin himself will tell anyone that Gretzky is the undisputed G.O.A.T.
Wayne carried the Kings and Rangers. Anyone that knows an once about ice hockey will say the exact same thing.
Wayne’s assists sums up that Gretzky was on a different stratosphere when he played. You mention physical attributes?
When Gretzky played it was a ton more physical than what we have now. Wayne was an amazing player and…skater. He was so fast nobody could catch him.
When he went to the Kings everybody knew it would be an exploit to win the Stanley Cup. He came oh so close same with the Rangers.
Your reasoning has your skates laces all tangled up.
Besides your non sense and blasphemic posts spend some time and watch Gretzky games…if you ever did.
Bobby Orr himself will tell you first hand that nobody even come close to Gretzky. The only that comes close and might even be on the same level (changed the game) is Maurice Richard.
I saw Gretzky play in an exhibition game at the Summit. He had like five billions assists. He was Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr, Pele, Zidane, Montana, Brady all blended together in one package. He was a freak and the NHL has not seen anyone come close to him since. Lemieux was great too but no near close to Wayne.
Gretzky could have stayed with the Oilers. That would have been the easy thing to do and he would have won probably another six Stanley Cups but the NHL wanted to succeed in California hence Wayne traded to the Kings. The Mighty Ducks are in existence because of Gretzky.
Uhlaw has won the 2025 BLASPHEMER award…and we are only in April.
No player is going to call himself the GOAT unless he’s a real egomaniac.
That said, he has his opinion, and I have mine.
In MY opinion, Ovechkin’s combination of goal scoring, physicality, and longevity beats Gretzky’s traits, regardless of Gretzky’s superior passing.
One man’s blasphemy is another man’s orthodoxy!
Gretzky never called himself the G.O.A.T. Everyone, every current and past players have.
You missed the point Bro.
Of course Ovechkin won’t call himself the GOAT. Neither would Gretzky. NO athlete would.
That’s why Ovechkin’s not calling himself that is unremarkable. Doesn’t automatically mean that Gretzky is because Ovi says so.
I give the edge to Ovi for the reasons I stated.
Opinions vary.
As I said, one man’s blasphemy….is another’s orthodoxy or dogma.