Alex Ovechkin NHL goals doc chase: Goalies on Capitals timetable

Washington Capitals celeb Alex Ovechkin defined Friday night he actually didn’t intend to get on the ice in an empty-net situation when he required one other goal to break Wayne Gretzky’s doc in your house.

“He wants to break the record with a goaltender in the crease,” teacher Spencer Carbery knowledgeable press reporters after the 5-3 win through which Ovechkin racked up two instances to hyperlink Gretzky (894 ).

No goalkeeper intends to be the one which quits the doc goal, but it seems like an individual will. So that would or not it’s?

Ovechkin has 6 video video games and 4 challengers entrusted to acquire goalNo 895 previous to completion of the interval. He offers with the New York Islanders and Columbus Blue Jackets two instances, plus the Carolina Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Islanders are up following on Sunday (12:30 p.m. ET, TNT, truTV). Semyon Varlamov has truly surrendered 8 goals, consisting of ones on which Ovechkin handed Mario Lemieux for tenth location, Phil Esposito for sixth and Jaromir Jagr for third. But Varlamov is damage.

How Ovechkin has truly made out versus goalkeepers he may encounter down the stretch:

Dates: April 6 and 15

Ilya Sorokin: No goals in 3 video video games on 4 photographs.

Marcus Hogberg: Two goals in 3 video video games on 14 photographs.

Date: April 10

Frederik Andersen: Nine goals in 12 video video games on 48 photographs.

Pyotr Kochetkov: Four goals in 5 video video games on 19 photographs.

Dates: April 12-13

Elvis Merzlikins: Four goals in 7 video video games on 24 photographs.

Daniil Tarasov: Three goals in 3 video video games on 9 photographs.

Date: April 17

Tristan Jarry: Two goals in 11 video video games on 30 photographs.

Alex Nedeljkovic: Two goals in 4 video video games on 12 photographs.

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