Alexander Ovečkin surpassed Brett Hull and came close to Wayne Gretzky’s record – ŠPORT.SK

today 11:15 | Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin passed another milestone in the NHL and came close to Wayne Gretzky’s record. In the victory of his Washington Capitals over the Vancouver Canucks 6:4, he recorded the 159th duel with two or more goals in the regular season of the NHL and moved to the second place in historical statistics. Also read VIDEO: Slafkovský improved his performance and rejoiced at the win. Regend’s first points,… The 37-year-old gunner, who spent his entire overseas career in the Capitals jersey, surpassed Brett Hull. He played 158 such duels. At the head of historical statistics is Gretzky with 189 duels with two or more goals. The legendary Canadian reigns in the same statistics in the regular season as well as the playoffs, where he played 212 multi-goal games, second is Hull (174) and Ovechkin (168) has already moved to the third place, having passed Mario Lemieux. In addition to two goals, Washington’s captain scored two assists and contributed to the victory over Vancouver to the greatest extent. “I had good chances in previous matches, but even now luck helped me with the first goal. But in such a situation you take it. They were my first goals of the season,” said Ovechkin, who already has 782 accurate hits to his credit and is in the historical table scorers reduced the lead of the second Gordie Howe to 19 goals. Gretzky leads the way with 894 notches. The Capitals went into the third period with a deficit of 2:4, but they turned the game around with four goals and denied the opponent’s coach Bruce Boudreau the joy of his 600th anniversary victory in the NHL. “We played a really great third period, probably the best this year, especially offensively. We were attacking and pressing the whole time,” praised Washington coach Peter Laviolette.