Russian forward and Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin repeated the goal record of the famous Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky in the National Hockey League (NHL), scoring into an empty goal.
On the night of November 12, Washington defeated the New York Islanders with a score of 4:1 in the NHL regular season. Ovechkin scored a double goal in this match – he opened the scoring in the match thanks to the first goal, while his second goal came in the last seconds of the match and was scored into the empty goal of the opposing team. Thus, Ovechkin scored his 56th goal in an NHL game into an empty net, repeating the record of Gretzky, who similarly scored the same number of goals.
Before facing the Islanders, Ovechkin had two goals and seven assists in 12 games of the season. Now, during his entire career in the NHL, the Russian forward has scored 826 goals. The difference behind Gretzky in the list of the best snipers in NHL history is 68 goals. In third place is Gordie Howe, who scored 801 goals during his NHL career.
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