Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky with 894th goal

Washington – Alex Ofkkin Link the score goals of Wayne Gretzki, and 894 collected his career – and the second of the match – Friday night against Chicago Black Hook.
the Capitals Great Great Gretzki on the goal of playing power with 13:46 left in the third period. He did this with Gritzky in the first time during this chase.
Ovechkin went to one knee to celebrate, then he was exposed to the team’s teammates with the outbreak of fans in the Capital One Arena.
Earlier, 39 -year -old Ovechkin defeated the goalkeeper Spencer Knight 3:52 in the game, take a pass from Dylan Strum Behind the network and banks the scepter off the distant post and the goalkeeper appeared and in.
After a few seconds, the Big Joe Turner, “Shake & Roll”, started a few seconds, and it surpasses the loudspeakers in Arena while Mascot Slapshot flipped the meter in one angle from 892 to 893. The fans chanted, “OVI! Ovi! “Before and after playing, he resumed.
Gretzky addressed Ovechkin early in the game before the greats are directed to the hockey goals list.
“I am very proud of the fact that I am here tonight,” Gretzki said at the first break at the beginning. “The Commissioner I spoke to the last day, and Alex does not come here until I reach two to two years. I thought yesterday,” Oh my God, it is better to get to the plane and get up there because he might get three nights. “When he registered four minutes I thought,” Oh my God, we may be able to leave after the first period.
He scored in a fourth consecutive match, Ovechkin reached 40 goals for the fourteenth time in 20 seasons, which is the most in the history of the league. He is the second 40 goal ever by a 39-year-old player, as he joined Gordie how (44 in 1968-1969 at the age of 40).
Ovechkin’s 242 functional goal was in the first period, breaking a tie with Gritzky for the most in the history of the league.
“It is very difficult,” said Gretzki, who had 12 seasons of 40 goals. “I do not care about what the era in which you play:” the fifties, the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, it is difficult to score goals. “
The leading capitals in the eastern conference have six games in the normal season with a visit on Sunday to New York Islands the next.
Information from Research Espn and Associated Press in this report have been used.