Noted National Hockey League (NHL) insider Elliott Friedman on a podcast The Jeff Marek Show He talked about the decline of Washington hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, who failed to score in 13 consecutive games.
“Sometimes you get close to the cliff and you fall. It was always remarkable. He was always doing something. But you don’t notice it as much as you used to. And that worries me,” Friedman said.
On the night of December 18, Washington defeated the Carolina Hurricanes during the NHL regular season. The match ended in a penalty shootout with a score of 2:1. Ovechkin did not score. The Russian forward has failed to score in 13 consecutive NHL games, which is his personal record.
This season, the 38-year-old Ovechkin played in 28 games on the ice and recorded only 17 points (5 goals and 12 assists). In total, the player scored 827 goals during his time in the NHL. The difference between Ovechkin, who holds the league record for the most goals scored in NHL history, and Gretzky is 67 goals.
Ovechkin before elongated An anti-record losing streak in the NHL.